Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
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I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.
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What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.
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That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.
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This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings and the things that I worry about and my personal demons. Is the sum of my personal demons greater than the things that I like about myself? Is this moment - because it's a particulary high tension, scary moment for all of us in terms of the global climate - going to bring out the best or the worst in us?
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
