Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes
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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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I've got an opinion on everything.
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.
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I know straight away if there are roles I don't want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.
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Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
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You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.
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Staying stagnant is not okay.
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I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.
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I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
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I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.
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My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
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Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
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There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.
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Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.
