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It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.

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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Actor
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Music Video Director
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Ventura County
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
Maya Arulpragasam
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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.
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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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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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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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My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.
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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
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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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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
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If music's a political place, I'm out.
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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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I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
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Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.
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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.
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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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Whoever's inside is inside whoever's out is out.
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Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.
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I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.
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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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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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