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I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

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Shirley Manson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 26
Actor
Feminist
Film Actor
Guitarist
Model
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Edinburgh
Scotland
Shirley Ann Manson
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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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It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.
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I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.
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You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.
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Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.
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I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.
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Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
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It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.
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I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.
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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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In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.
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Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.
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A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.
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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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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
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I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.
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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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I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.
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I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.
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