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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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.
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Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.
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My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
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'Oh my precocious one,' she said. 'You never fail to charm me. Bisexual is it, how Byronic and charming. Doesn't that double's one's chances for love? I'm so delighted.'
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When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.
