Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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I love my kid. I love a boring life.
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Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.
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I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
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I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.
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Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
