Believing in yourself and being willing to do anything, to walk through the fire, to do what it is that you want to do. Getting out of that car accident covered with blood to play the gig . . . I mean, that’s me. That’s just me.
MADONNA CICCONEDo everything you’re told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, ‘It’s not so bad.’ Say ‘You are almost there!’ And say it a lot.
More Madonna Ciccone Quotes
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When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.
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Marriage? I don’t know what I really think about marriage. I’m a bit confused on that issue.
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The one thing I don’t understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It’s fascinating.
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I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80’s just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.
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One thing I’ve learned is that I’m not the owner of my talent; I’m the manager of it.
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They’re only words, unless they’re true.
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Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?
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If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
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When I came to New York it was the first time I’d ever taken a plane, the first time I’d ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I’d ever done.
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When I think about popular culture, I can’t help but think that we’re living in the age of loneliness. There’s this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.
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I laugh at myself. I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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There’s no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.
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As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.
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The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.
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