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IMELDA MAY I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an...
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IMELDA MAY Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of ev...
IMELDA MAY I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for m...
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IMELDA MAY I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it wa...
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IMELDA MAY I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
IMELDA MARCOS I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
IMELDA MARCOS “‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’”
IMELDA MARCOS I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific'...
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IMELDA MAY American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops t...
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IMELDA MARCOS They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extr...
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