Grimes Quotes

Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.

Grimes

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PowerFashionYouPowerfulPlace

Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.

John Darnielle

GoodTimeWordsStoryGuitarTry

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.

Mayer Hawthorne

LoveMeSongToughStrongChoose

My favourite outfit is a giant bunny suit. I wore it in a music video for 'Are You One?' by the Chanteuse & the Crippled Claw and got to keep it.

Maxine Peake

MusicYouOutfitBunnySuitKeep

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

Jeff Nichols

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I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

Rupert Friend

ShortAttentionAlwaysBoredGet

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Rupert Murdoch

MotivationalHopePeopleIdeasYou

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Roseanne Barr

CalmPeacefulFindPlaceKnowHow

We've been at war for 10 years with this generation of Marines. We've seen women do a whole lot of things between the war in Iraq and the current war in Afghanistan. The fact that I'm sitting here making sure that we continue to put out the best young Marines is just a matter of it being 2011.

Loretta Reynolds

WomenBestWarGenerationYoungOut

As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.

Jon Evans

TechnologyLawWorldShortCourtesy

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Denzel Washington

DailyThinkLearnSomeoneYouSee

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Diane Abbott

LookVillageLondonOutsiderSense

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Brendan Behan

MarriageActionLongGoNever

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