Lisa Marie Presley Quotes - Page 3

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• I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Singers, Wells, Wanted

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• I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Artist, Thinking, Long

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• Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

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  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

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• People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Long, People, Stuff

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Father, People, Protective

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• I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Dark, Who I Am, People

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• I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Transition, Way, Turns

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Eclectic Style, Bohemian, Aesthetic

  "Ten Questions: Lisa Marie Fernandez". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Song, Art, Anger

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• If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Similarity, Ifs

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• Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Insane, Scientology

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• I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Artist, Thinking, Way

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. April 29, 2005.

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• I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Done, Admiration, Deals

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Marriage, Sunglasses, Nightmare

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• I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  School, Trying, Purpose

  "Moving on from Memphis". Interview with Michael Bracewell, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2003.

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• When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Song, Writing, Musician

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• I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Feet, Gains, Pounds

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• I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Want, Singers, Pops

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

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  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• I have loved music so much from when I was little and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea, I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Song, Dad, Mirrors

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

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  Baby, Airports, Want

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• I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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