Marie Fredriksson Quotes
There was all these old ladies and my mother she was one of them, and they were having you know, kind of a meeting, and she had said to them 'Oh I have a daughter, she can sings very well!' So it was very embarrassing for me.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.
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Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
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I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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I don't try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I'm very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, 'OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don't do that.'
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.
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I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.
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As part of a group that has promoted for a long time, I think it’s a shame that many groups can’t do that. It does make me sad. Even if you start promoting in your late teens or early twenties, if you include the training period, you’ve basically spent half your life as a singer.
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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There was all these old ladies and my mother she was one of them, and they were having you know, kind of a meeting, and she had said to them 'Oh I have a daughter, she can sings very well!' So it was very embarrassing for me.
