Madonna Ciccone Quotes — Page 31

Singer

Inspired

“I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.”

Goes On Failing Periods

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Madonna Ciccone

Singer

Funny

“I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.”

Crazy Sound Radio

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Creative

“I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.”

Believe Years Yoga

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Spiritual

“I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.”

Believe Practice Islam

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Spiritual

“When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.”

People Ideas Creative

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Creative

“When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.”

People Writing Stories

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Creative

“Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.”

People Letting Go Collaboration

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Grateful

“I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.”

People Giving Ambition

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Inspired

“I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.”

Thinking Dying Sitting

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Anxious

“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.”

Thinking Moving Space

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Vulnerable

“A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.”

Thinking Men Gay

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Regretful

“Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.”

Intelligent Sexy Sexism

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