Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon
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A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.
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All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time.
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I've always had a strange fear of spoons.
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I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.
