Marina and the Diamonds quote: "This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star."

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another al...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol station...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Sold my soul and yeah, the truth hurts.
MARINA DIAMANDIS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY

Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY

Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY

I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY

Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY

Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY

I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY

I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY

It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY

A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY

Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY

My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
SEX AND THE CITY

No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
SEX AND THE CITY

What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY

the lights fade to black.
SEX AND THE CITY

Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one.
SEX AND THE CITY

Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!"
SEX AND THE CITY

F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
SEX AND THE CITY

Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a...
SEX AND THE CITY

I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs.
SEX AND THE CITY

All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves...
SEX AND THE CITY

'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire.
SEX AND THE CITY

Sex and the City.
SEX AND THE CITY

Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light.
SEX AND THE CITY

When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing...
SEX AND THE CITY

Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. If you have the choice t...
SEX AND THE CITY

Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are time...
SEX AND THE CITY

When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future m...
SEX AND THE CITY

I love you but it's not my job to fix your finances. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY

It took me a really long time to get here, but I'm here. Carrie, you're the one. [Mr.Big]
SEX AND THE CITY

Life is not all about sex. [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY

When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ...
SEX AND THE CITY

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is. [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
SEX AND THE CITY

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so hig...
SEX AND THE CITY

My character, she's kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm people...
SEX AND THE CITY

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But...
SEX AND THE CITY

Charlotte: So how are you?
Carrie: I'm good. How are you?
Charlotte: Great.
Carrie: I to...
SEX AND THE CITY

I had often fantasized about running into my ex and his wife. But in those fantasies, I was running ...
SEX AND THE CITY

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be truehe probably is. [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY

I'm thinking balls are to men what purses are to women. It's just a little bag, but we feel naked in...
SEX AND THE CITY

They practically chased me with torches like I was Fuckenstein! [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY

Middle-Age Girls Gone Wild.
SEX AND THE CITY

You in a threesome? You won't even wear a thong! [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY

The only thing worse than a liar is a bad liar. [Lucy Liu]
SEX AND THE CITY

It's my birthday. I'm officially old. [Carrie on her 35th Birthday]
SEX AND THE CITY

You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
SEX AND THE CITY

But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with your...
SEX AND THE CITY

Junkyard Wars.
SEX AND THE CITY

Kitchen
SEX AND THE CITY

Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
SEX AND THE CITY

You shouldn't have to sacrifice who you are just because somebody else has a problem with it.
SEX AND THE CITY

I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
SEX AND THE CITY

I’ve done the merry-go-round, I’ve been through the revolving doors, I feel like I’ve met some...
SEX AND THE CITY

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the h...
SEX AND THE CITY

Men in their forties are like the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle: tricky, complicated, and y...
SEX AND THE CITY

You wouldn't commit to a nice guy, given the option? [Carrie] I can't even commit to a long distance...
SEX AND THE CITY

She can reach me, but I can't ever get her. [Big]
SEX AND THE CITY

The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
SEX AND THE CITY

Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in ...
SEX AND THE CITY

Beverly Hills Cop II.
SEX AND THE CITY

It's not the beef, Henry. It's the last 23 years!
SEX AND THE CITY

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
SEX AND THE CITY

Hi, Mrs. Collier. I'm a Jew now. How are you? [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY

Ray.
SEX AND THE CITY

There was so much skin, it was like a shar-pei![Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY

I don't know what's going to happen to this street. Fairfax is not what it used to be.
SEX AND THE CITY

Really wanted a little baby to love, though not, obviously, weekend nanny to shag ex-husband.
SEX AND THE CITY

Lord of the Strings.
SEX AND THE CITY

The only one who should have to pay for a bad relationship is the person in your next relationship. ...
SEX AND THE CITY

Maybe the past is an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you are to become who ...
SEX AND THE CITY

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone ju...
SEX AND THE CITY

Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something ...
SEX AND THE CITY

I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other ...
SEX AND THE CITY

Are there some women put in the world just to make you feel bad about yourself?
SEX AND THE CITY

When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be ca...
SEX AND THE CITY

It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes -- that's why you sometimes need really special s...
SEX AND THE CITY

The Indians had to wait up to six months for a response. It took me six months to get the message th...
SEX AND THE CITY

It was a typical downtown male mix. Ten percent Wall Street, ten percent real estate, and ten percen...
SEX AND THE CITY

Lipstick,
SEX AND THE CITY

Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a who...
SEX AND THE CITY

Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
SEX AND THE CITY

It takes half the amount of time you dated someone to get over them.
SEX AND THE CITY

Don't you want to stand still with me?
SEX AND THE CITY

I don't know. I moved to L.A. to be a rock star and a comedian, and now I'm a contributor to Cosmopo...
SEX AND THE CITY

I think it's romantic when someone offers me a seat on the subway. [Carrie]
SEX AND THE CITY

I don't see color, I see conquests.[Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY

The only thing that I have ever successfully made in the kitchen is a mess. And several little fires...
SEX AND THE CITY

In starlit nights I saw you,
So cruelly you kissed me.
Your lips a magic world,
Your ...
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the r...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
MARINA TSVETAEVA

I had difficult mother, difficult childhood like she had. She is Sagittarius like I am. I almost die...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
MARINA SIRTIS

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?&...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year wit...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marria...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven pr...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow m...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, yo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it&...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I want to dominate the man's world.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhe...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
MARINA WARNER

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance art...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman....
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other i...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with me...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the livin...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic,...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted mas...
MARINA FIORATO

Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping. 
In the cradle a child is screaming. 
An old ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
MARINA TSVETAEVA

It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when i...
MARINA HYDE

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division bet...
MARINA WARNER

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
MARINA WARNER

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.
MARINA AMOROSO

This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track wor...
MARINA AMOROSO

There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a ma...
MARINA AMOROSO

The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approa...
MARINA AMOROSO

These Are The Voyages...
MARINA SIRTIS

When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing fairies.
MARINA GALLAGHER

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it...
MARINA LEWYCKA

With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.
MARINA SIMCOE

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and...
MARINA WARNER

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not thi...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to ex...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek charac...
MARINA SIRTIS

They should've done a two-hour, you know, like we did. Then I would've gotten double the money, that...
MARINA SIRTIS

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes...
MARINA WARNER

A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not...
MARINA WARNER

I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same p...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
MARINA OSWALD

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Самый необитаемый из всех островов - толпа.
MARINA DYACHENKO

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with w...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.

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This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.

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