Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
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The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
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I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'
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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
