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Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Girl
Band
Wish
Indie
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I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Ashamed
Hurt
Long
Malicious
Thinking
Hurting
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I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Cultural Diversity
Diversity
Historic
London
Thinking
Arty
Cultural
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If you ask most people, 'Who's Lily Allen?,' they'll say, 'That girl who's in the papers all the time.' Not that girl who wrote songs.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Papers
Time People Who
Allen
Lily
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I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Girl
Jobs
Couple
Insane
Love Amazing Me
Myspace
Weeks
Past Couple
Poster
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I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Running
Famous
Being Famous
Commentary
Constant
Early 20s
Me Big Who
Early
Telling
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People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Men
People
Successful
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When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Teacher
Ill
School
Taken
Variety
Voice
Show
Fill
Realized
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I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Firsts
Ibiza
Lambs
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I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Night
People
Three
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Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus...
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Girl
People
Real
Song
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People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Jobs
Hunting
Play
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Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Artist
Buying
Downturn
Massive
People
Piracy
Records
Money Music People
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I was guilty of appropriating when I did a video called 'Hard Out Here.' I was guilty of assuming that there was a one-size-fits-all where feminism is concerned.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Assuming
Feminism
Guilty
One Size Fits All
Out Here
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I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Chamber
Choir
School
Taught
Theory
Voice
Studied
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I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Hate
Healthy
Honestly
Models
Pop Stars
Shapes
Stars
Achieving
Hang
None
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I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Very Famous
Want
Way
Expressing
Private Person
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I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Lilies
People
Writing
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I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Drug
Golden
Ibiza
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I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Feelings
Song
Writing
Life My Life Feel
Contrived
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The world is run on fear and shame. And I don't feel like we can begin to overcome these things until we speak about them openly and stop being scared of what happens as a result.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Being Scared
Happens
Scared
Shame
Speak
Begin
Overcome
Run
Openly
Result
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I still think I'm fat. Right now I'm worrying about how I'm going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like an elephant, but I do get the occasional sexy pregnant day where I think I look great.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Pregnancy
Sexy
Thinking
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You cannot compare Britney with Lady Gaga...You are putting Lady Gaga at the same level of Britney Spears? I really cannot believe it. Lady Gaga is good, but she's a new artist, Britney Spears is a legend.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Legends
Spears
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I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Bills
Everyday
Pay
Responsibility
Life Money Enough
Enough Money
Paying
Responsibilities
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I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Journalism
People
Way
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You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Complaining
Names
Wish
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My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Disappointed
Shocked
Dreaming
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Yes, I met Carl Barat [from Dirty Pretty Things] yesterday when I was at the POPWORLD TV show. He smiled at me and watched 5 minutes of my performance. I don't think I've said anything that bad about anyone, though, to be honest.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Dirty
Thinking
Tv Shows
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I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Embarrassed
Ill
Performing
Rehearsal
School
Unhappy
Asked
Perform
Pretend
Rehearsals
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I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Confused
Great Things
Guilty
Misery
People
Thinking
Life Time Great
Enjoying
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As for drugs, it annoys me that people think it`s the worst thing in the world compared with, say, not paying your taxes. If you don`t pay tax, you may be stealing from someone who needs an operation. As for me and drugs or alcohol: No thanks, I`m abstaining for a while.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Alcohol
People
Thinking
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I think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Couple
Lying
Reading
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A lot of my honesty, and wanting to be as authentic as possible, came from coming out of bands like S Club 7 - things that felt glossy, you know? And with the rise of social media, there was an initial backlash against that glossiness, too. And then, I don't know, somehow it managed to get lost again.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Backlash
Honesty
Authentic
Initial
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I think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Doctors
Thinking
Years
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I think, ever since I started doing well commercially, it's always been like, 'Oh, well, you're only where you are because of your dad, and it must be because of Mark Ronson and Greg Kurstin that you do well.' It's just everyone apart from me is responsible for the songs that I've written selling millions around the world.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Mark
Millions
Selling
Dad Always World
Apart
Dad World Me
Commercially
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I'm not good at many things. But I really like songwriting, and I get a good reaction from it. There's not much that I do that causes a good reaction, so it feels like if I want to have good things happen, then I should do the things I'm good at. I mean, in all seriousness, I left school at 15. I'm unqualified to do anything else.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Causes
Good Things
Seriousness
Songwriting
Things Happen
Unqualified
Reaction
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We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people to perceive you. Think of when people are partying and having fun. They're like, "Hey, look at us!" You're obviously not having that much fun because otherwise you wouldn't be stopping to document it. It's stupid.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Fun
Party
Stupid
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Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Bullshit
Idols
People
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