Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I had always known that I was 'different.' I didn't really understand it all until I got older. But there was always this foreboding sense something was 'wrong.' I never knew how to talk about it. I just remember feeling terrified about what would happen if someone found out. It was a very lonely feeling.
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During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
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I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'
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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.
