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" I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I'm very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once. "

Lauren Mayberry

Brain

Lucky

Media

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Lauren Mayberry

Being

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" Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!' "

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" To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference. "

Lauren Mayberry

Silence

People

" Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people. "

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" The film world feels like a smaller world than music. "

Lauren Mayberry

World

Than

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