M.I.A. Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
