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I’m terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It’s something that wakes me up at night.

Lorde

Everyone’s competing for a love they won’t receive.
LORDE

Break Up Complete Love
I’ve totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what’s right for you. I know exactly what’s right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, ‘Don’t do that, don’t do that,’ you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.
LORDE

Art Badass Motivational Time
Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
LORDE

Alone People Remember Take Care Words
I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.
LORDE

Each Other Need Next Walk
Of course I got lipstick all over my lil’ nose in about 5 seconds, nothing’s changed.
LORDE

Change Lipstick Make Up
The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.
LORDE

Career Fashion People Thinking
Don’t let some random comment that you wouldn’t have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.
LORDE

Fashion Feminism Important
Glory and gore go hand in hand.
LORDE

Glory Hands Life
Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.
LORDE

Afraid Kind Mother Person
I think I’m speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn’t even be something that people find mildly surprising. It’s just a part of being a girl in 2013.
LORDE

Girl Reality Thinking
Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
LORDE

Flower People Sunflower Wild
I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
LORDE

Money Shopping
What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.
LORDE

Children Important Parent
People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.
LORDE

Class Feminism People
Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that’s left is our Wikipedia entry.
LORDE

Celebrity Fame Wikipedia
We’re so happy, even when we’re smiling out of fear.
LORDE

Fear Happiness Smile

I’m terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It’s something that wakes me up at night.

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I’m terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It’s something that wakes me up at night.

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