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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
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If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.
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When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.
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If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
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When mayors get together they probably have better conversations and have better notes to share about running different cities, and just do what suits. Basically, like when you combine all the religions and take the best bits, you should be able to combine all the cities and take the best bits, the information, the tried and tested things.
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.
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That's what I miss, being a real human.
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In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . .
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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
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What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.
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I wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really noticed that before. I'm going to have to fix that or I'm going to look really old.
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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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I fly like paper, get high like planes If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name
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Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, You can't touch that now because you're a pop star.
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If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.
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Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.
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Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
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