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Lauren Mayberry

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If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes. - Lauren Mayberry
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I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying. - Lauren Mayberry
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Seeing people communicate about the band online has been amazing, but I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that. - Lauren Mayberry
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I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well. - Lauren Mayberry
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I don't want to be the front for somebody else's creativity and sell that day in, day out. - Lauren Mayberry
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Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you. - Lauren Mayberry
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Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody. - Lauren Mayberry
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I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to say 'hello' in Dutch, and it did not work. People were just like, 'What?' - Lauren Mayberry
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If we just stand at two opposite ends of the spectrum screaming in each other's face, we're never gonna get anything done. I don't agree with a Trump voter, but why do they feel like that? Yes, some of those people are racist and have hateful opinions, but some of those people voted for him because they felt completely left behind. - Lauren Mayberry
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The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace. - Lauren Mayberry
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To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference. - Lauren Mayberry
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It's nice to squash people's expectations. - Lauren Mayberry
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I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do. - Lauren Mayberry
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I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used. - Lauren Mayberry
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Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run. - Lauren Mayberry
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Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people. - Lauren Mayberry
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I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors. - Lauren Mayberry
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Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.' - Lauren Mayberry
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Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not. - Lauren Mayberry
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I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.' - Lauren Mayberry
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