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It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

Laura Marling

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Laura Marling
Age: 34
Born: 1990
Born: January 1
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Laura Beatrice Marling
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Living in L.A., I was completely lost - and I enjoyed it.
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One woman I interviewed, Amanda Ghost, said, Let's not bullshit, there are no women at the top of the music business, and that is a serious problem. And I said, Yes! And I didn't shy away from saying that. But I still don't want to be in the firing line. I'm not clever or witty or brave enough to get into the political nitty-gritty with it
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I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.
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It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.
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There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in
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I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.
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I find it dull when my heart meets my mind
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If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.
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All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
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Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time where it gets to us very quickly and very young. So how do you maintain in a child that sense of unique identity before they get thrown all that is projected on them?
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The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.
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