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I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

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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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Laid
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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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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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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
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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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It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.
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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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It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.
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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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I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.
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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'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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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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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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I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
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If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.
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What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
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Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
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