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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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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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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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If music's a political place, I'm out.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
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By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
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That's what I miss, being a real human.
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I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.
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Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.
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Whoever's inside is inside whoever's out is out.
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I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.
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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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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
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Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.
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Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.
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You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.
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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos. They funnel me through, Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?
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