Top 100 Paloma Faith Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I’ve made an effort.”

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2. “There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.”

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3. “Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.”

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4. “Curvy is something to be proud of.”

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5. “It’s celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.”

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6. “I enjoy being a girl.”

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7. “I’m not interested in what other people are doing. That’s their business.”

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8. “I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.”

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9. “I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.”

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10. “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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11. “I don’t overthink when I’m styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!”

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12. “I like sparkles; I think I’m a magpie.”

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13. “I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.”

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14. “I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we’d complement each other, but I’m hoping he’s got a good sense of humour.”

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15. “All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.”

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16. “I don’t have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.”

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17. “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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18. “I’m not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don’t spend lots of money on stuff. I’m not really into TV, I don’t have an iPod, I’ve got a gramophone.”

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19. “I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons – my mother had breast cancer and I think it’s very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.”

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20. “I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn’t have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.”

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21. “It’s amazing living alone. I’m very lucky. It’s like a refuge.”

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22. “I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.”

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23. “Once you accept that we’re all imperfect, it’s the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.”

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24. “I’m proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.”

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25. “I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that’s where I go.”

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26. “I feel curious about every situation I’m in.”

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27. “Sometimes people fear the truth. They’d rather not speak to you than know what you really think.”

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28. “I don’t have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.”

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29. “I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway.”

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30. “Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don’t want it to be.”

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31. “I’m not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I’m on holiday. I do enough shopping when I’m at home, and like to have a complete break when I’m away.”

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32. “We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.”

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33. “I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.”

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34. “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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35. “I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we’re living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.”

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36. “I don’t know anyone, from any class, who’s had a perfectly easy life. I’ve met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn’t have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.”

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37. “I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.”

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38. “I’m a serial monogamist.”

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39. “You cannot schedule death.”

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40. “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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41. “I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn’t get into trouble.”

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42. “My mum’s always on at me to have children and blames ‘that stupid stage thing you do’ for me not already having a family.”

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43. “I’m the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.”

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44. “Some men think that if you’re empowered and sure of yourself then you’re a man-hater, but it’s like, ‘No, I’m just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.’”

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45. “I’m not a downtrodden woman. I just won’t be.”

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46. “When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.”

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47. “I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.”

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48. “Adele’s like a beacon of honesty. Doesn’t compromise, goes to America and she’s still the same sweary cockney.”

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49. “I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I’d come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.”

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50. “It’s tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, ‘Oh, look, another quirky girl.’”

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