Marie Fredriksson Quotes
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
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There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.
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We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.
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When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret.
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I remember when singers were singers. Ugly people. Aretha Franklin needed a lot of room to eat her chicken wings. Janis Joplin used to come out in clothes woven from her own vomit. Nina Simone, amazing singer, could look at a railway track and buckle it. It didn’t matter; They were beautiful people because of what they could do.
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You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.
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When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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My son is a professional musician now.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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Be curious. Be daring. Be different. Be yourself. And, if that doesn't work, be moi!
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Be yourself.
