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Laura Mvula Quotes

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: April 23, 1986

Topics

Night Personal Write Performing Very

I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish the benevolence of the heart and set bounds to philanthropy.

John Paul Jones

Heart Myself World Country Citizen

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

Love Feel Someone You Selling Out

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.

Reading Remember Important First

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Children Respect Words World Think

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

Colleagues You Will Successful

I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.

Life Good People Start Think Church

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

Brother Me Lawyer Colleagues Name

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

Faith Great People Born Liberty

On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it.

Tomorrow Edge Making Movie Were

It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?'

Life Success Teacher Weird Problem

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Anthony Hopkins

Life Myself School Back Acting Way

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

William Shakespeare

Love Love Is Know Young Conscience

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