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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Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.
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I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else.
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I just want to be successful. I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I want to win a Grammy' or whatever; if that comes, that's awesome. But I just want to be successful and provide for my whole family and get my family out the hood.
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The theatrical experience is also a communal one. When people saw 'Fruitvale' in the theater, there was not a dry eye at the end of the movie, and you would look to your neighbor and have this shared moment together that had a real weight behind it.
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There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.
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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.
