Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.
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Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
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There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling.
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The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.
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Les délicats sont malheureux:Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.
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I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.
