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 Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.
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I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.
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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
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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.
