Shirley Manson Quotes

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• A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

  Shirley Manson

  Fear, Fancy Cars, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

  Shirley Manson

  Life Is Too Short, Geek, Embrace

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• It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.

  Shirley Manson

  Beautiful, Strong, Pain

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• Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

  Shirley Manson

  Boys, Naughty, People

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• I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

  Shirley Manson

  Girl, Alternatives, Viewpoints

  "Women in Music 2012". www.elle.com. April 10, 2012.

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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.

  Shirley Manson

  Children, Fighting, Happy Life

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• I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

  Shirley Manson

  Odd One, Garbage, Outsiders

  Source: www.spin.com

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• What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

  Shirley Manson

  Stylish

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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.

  Shirley Manson

  Powerful, Voice, Feel Good

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• I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

  Shirley Manson

  People, Mental Health, Happy People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

  Shirley Manson

  Struggle, People, Perfect

  "Q&A: Shirley Manson and Butch Vig of Garbage Talk About Their Comeback, and Why Manson was the Lana Del Rey of the 90s". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

  Shirley Manson

  Girl, Blessed, Looks

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• I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

  Shirley Manson

  Weather, Mood, Contradictory

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• Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

  Shirley Manson

  Doe, Want, Clock

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• I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

  Shirley Manson

  Thinking, Appreciate, Boots

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• I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

  Shirley Manson

  Laid Back, Band, Aggressive

  "New Again: Garbage". Interview with Paige Powell and Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2012.

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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.

  Shirley Manson

  Political, Desire, Together

  "Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 23, 2012.

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• You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.

  Shirley Manson

  Beautiful, Interesting, Matter

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• Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.

  Shirley Manson

  Impact, Careers, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.

  Shirley Manson

  People, One Day, Matter

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• It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

  Shirley Manson

  Makeup, White, Black

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• I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

  Shirley Manson

  Fun, Schedules, Want

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• Dear Kanye West. It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry. You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you disrespect the talent, hard work and tenacity of all artists when you go so rudely and savagely after such an accomplished and humble artist like BECK.

  Shirley Manson

  Hard Work, Humble, Artist

  Shirley Manson @shirleymanson, www.facebook.com. February 09, 2015.

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• I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

  Shirley Manson

  Mean, Purpose, Crosses

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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.

  Shirley Manson

  Song, Writing, Apples

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