Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
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People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.
