"I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs."

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Laura Marling

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“English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in English because it's the language in between. I speak Finnish, I speak French, so I'll write songs in English because that's the music I listen to. I learned so much poetry and the poetic way of expressing myself is in English.”
“No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.”
“A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.”
“All the physical comes from the mental.”
“Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.”

Source : Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang
“A must have for women? Confidence! Be yourself!”
“Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.”
“Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.”

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