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" Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy. "
Shirley Manson
Punk
Seem
People
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" 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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Me
Together
" 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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Dead
Solo
Open
" The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression. "
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" I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack. "
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Music
Artist
Girl
" Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing. "
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Find
Way
Women
" I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can. "
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Life
Doing
Plan
" I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation. "
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Time
Me
Long
" That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous. "
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Rebel
Yourself
Difficult
" I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life. "
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Life
Hot
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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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People
Music
Think
" A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. "
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Famous
Music
People
" 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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Cool
You
People
" Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does. "
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Beat
Want
Nobody
" 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
" I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. "
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Tension
Very
Find
" When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview. "
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Possible
Going
Say
" I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact. "
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Noise
Loud
Person
" 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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Father
Girlfriends
Even
" I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed. "
Shirley Manson
Feel Good
Clothes
Myself
" Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture. "
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You
Sign
Culture
" And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. "
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Fight
You
Business
" I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect. "
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Game
Fight
Woman
" Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society. "
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Confident
Society
Feeling
" I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next. "
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Most
Game
Am
" No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me. "
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Like
Know
Comfort
" I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female. "
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Sexuality
Pretty
Individual
" I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl. "
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Looks
Girl
Good
" People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty. "
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Skin
Red
Pale
" 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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Fix
People
Situation
" I have a temper on me that could hold back tides. "
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Hold
Could
Back