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I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

Shirley Manson

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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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Fishes
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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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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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People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
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Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
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Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.
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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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Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.
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Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I was a redhead and a middle child both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.
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I'm 41, I'm a woman, not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.
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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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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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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 have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
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