Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.
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I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.
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Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
