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" I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out. "
Shirley Manson
Out
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" I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun. "
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" I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities. "
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" I love pop music. Who doesn't? "
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" It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy. "
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" I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact. "
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" In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream. "
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" Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation. "
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" My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. "
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Open
" Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me. "
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Together
" I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can. "
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" I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well. "
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I Am
Well
Rest
" I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! "
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Girlfriends
Even
" If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery. "
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You
Call
" It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging. "
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Yourself
Try
Intelligence
" How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself. "
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Trust
Hair
Yourself
" In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people. "
Shirley Manson
People
Uncomfortable
You
" I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next. "
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Most
Game
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" Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does. "
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Beat
Want
Nobody
" The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down. "
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Feeling
Powerful
Voice
" I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. "
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Viewpoint
Hear
Want
" I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced. "
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Afraid
People
Happy People
" I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest. "
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Sort
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Got
" I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included. "
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People
Looks
Others
" I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more. "
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" You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music. "
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People
" People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music. "
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Joy
Memories
People
" I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it. "
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Sick
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" I have a temper on me that could hold back tides. "
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Hold
Could
Back
" A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. "
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Fame
World
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