Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
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For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.
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The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
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If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.
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I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.
