I don’t have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
PALOMA FAITHIt’s amazing living alone. I’m very lucky. It’s like a refuge.
More Paloma Faith Quotes
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I’m under no illusion that there are things about me that I’d like to change. I just accept who I am, and I’m proud of it.
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I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that’s where all that influence comes from.
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I think soul is soul. I don’t see new soul as any different to old soul.
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
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I lend people money, but I’d never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn’t get it back.
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I’m surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don’t have any problem telling me I’m acting like an idiot or I’m not that funny.
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All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.
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There’s nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I don’t have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career – if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it’s going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I’m hoping they’ll just go hand in hand.
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I enjoy being a girl.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They’d rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.
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I try not to brand myself ‘weird’ any more because it sticks.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I’m out running.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I’m taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I’d say that, first and foremost, I’m a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
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We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
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If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won’t do a photo because I wouldn’t want any photographic evidence.
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Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don’t want it to be.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you… well, I wouldn’t say happy, but I’d say it gives you diversity.
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My mum came from nothing and didn’t have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
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I wish I was more stupid because I’m either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I’m a bit morbid. There’s never anything in between.
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