Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'

Marina and the Diamonds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: October 10, 1985

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I did a couple of plays at university, badly, where I made friends with Benedict Cumberbatch. When you see someone like him acting, it makes you think there's not much point in doing it yourself.

Robert Rinder

YourselfThinkSomeoneDoingActing

I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.

Anna Maxwell Martin

UglyPeopleMeInterestingMeanGet

There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.

Jeff Nichols

ThinkCameraYouPlaceRightBig

I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before.

John Salazar

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People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

John Sweeney

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Averages are useful because many traits, behaviors, and outcomes are distributed in a bell-shaped curve, with most results clustered around the middle and a much smaller group of outliers at the high and low ends.

Stephanie Coontz

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I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

Steven Spielberg

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George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

LoveMeYouProfessionalSaidSteel

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

Rob Sheffield

PowerWeirdRulesPlayNobodyNever

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

ChildrenNeedCriticsRatherThan

Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully.

Debbie Allen

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I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Chita Rivera

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