Shirley Manson Quotes

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Shirley Manson

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 26, 1966

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

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My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

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You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

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I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

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How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

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

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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.

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It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

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No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

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

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I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

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People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

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

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That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

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

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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.

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I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

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Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

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I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

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At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.

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