M.I.A. Quotes
I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Fashion is one big family.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
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The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.
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For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.
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I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.
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I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
