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.M.I.A.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
Sam Underwood -
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.
Gary Herbert -
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
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.
Barry Eisler -
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.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
Samuel Goldwyn
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
J. B. Pritzker -
Fashion is one big family.
Carine Roitfeld -
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
Kate Capshaw -
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie -
There's always merit to having a debate.
Ward Churchill -
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.
Oscar Pistorius
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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.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Vidya Balan -
I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
Laura Carmichael -
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.
Kaki King -
I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
Kate Bosworth -
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
Walter Kirn
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
Queen Latifah -
I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street.
Erro -
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
Randy Travis -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
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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