Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I'm not graceful.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
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History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
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Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.
