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Marina Diamandis

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  1. “Whether it's that you're looking for a relationship or your dating casually, they're not really like secure or safe connections yet because of the way that you meet. It's not through like a friend where you kind of know a bit about that person. So I think throwing myself to the wolves, per se, I would... Feel much more vulnerable, and I think even though it was a horrible experience, I think it was very necessary for me to be able to actually Process these patterns that I had and where they'd even come from. So I wouldn't say I'm fully out, but I'm like, I'm on the way out.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Well, I'm getting over it, but I think this book has actually been instrumental in shifting through that because I don't think you can change things until you're aware of them in yourself. And I think my relationships in my 20s, you know, they're like up and down as everyone's really. They were more consistent, I would say, and then when I left a relationship around 35, I moved to LA. It was like this new chapter of my life. I was suddenly in this like dating world where they're at dating apps now. I'd never been on an app. I'd always met people naturally in my life. And I think that brought up a lot of pre-existing issues.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “I feel scared of C for one, so I think that's what started it. But I think seeing the ocean as this. Of entity that humans that lives along humans and is far more knowledgeable than us. I think the way in which our consciousness has developed is that, or maybe the human brain has developed, is that we think we're all knowing and that, for example, we are more intelligent than trees. How do we know? They've been here way longer than us. And the same can be said for the ocean. So I think it's looking at nature in a different way where it's not like, you know, it's not from the top down where humans are the most intelligent species or living thing here.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Because I'm like, will it ever happen for me? Nobody knows. But I think even if you have that stability, you're still going to encounter absents because that's part of the human experience. Nobody escapes challenges.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “I think our experiences are usually the source or like the impetus for us to become artists. But I think there are lots of artists out today who don't seem to work from a place of sadness. And I think it's inspiring to see that, but also for myself. I don't think you need to have that as your basis. I think life is up and down, like happiness isn't like permanent destination that we're all going to. I think even if you live a great life and you're very emotionally stable.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “With the sadness, I think if that's been a baseline in your life for a long time, you don't know what's on the other side. And so part of you desperately wants to escape a challenging state like sadness. However, you don't know how else life could look. And actually, I'm thinking of a quote that I discovered about six months ago, which is we always choose familiar hells over unfamiliar heavens. That just resonated so deeply with me. We all want a better life for ourselves, but it's like, how do you get there? And I think in our worst moments, it might be like, I know I have these patterns that make me feel stuck, but how do I get out of them? And it really, it's like a little by little process. I think lasting change rarely happens quickly.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Such a good topic because I think it relates to change and how difficult it is to change your life. It's never overnight. I think it's like a very gradual process. And I think in terms of that poem that you mentioned, I think”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Yeah, I think I have been tagged as that, but I also think that's why I have such a dedicated fan base because I think you guys are people who want interesting lyrics and you relate to music in a way that it's like a companion to help you grow throughout life. At least that's what I'm like, and that's the sensation I get with my fans. But I think Yeah, I think with poetry. I don't know. I like being honest and I get a thrill when I uncover something in myself that makes me feel like I'm able to be more honest with myself. So I think it's outspoken, but maybe not in the way that people might predict. It's not political really very much at all. Of a personal”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “But also, I didn't know that I was going to do a book at first. I was just enjoying it. But I think the variety of subjects that I could talk about is much larger. Because again, some things just aren't going to sound good in a song. You can't articulate it in the same way.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “You were writing these. So it was 2022 and I'd moved to LA permanently like two years before. I wasn't in a relationship and I hadn't been for a couple of years. And yeah, I think getting used to a new city, I think for any of us it can be quite isolating at first, regardless of if you have a community there or not. And I think a city like LA is so large it really can magnify certain aspects of your personality. So for me it was a lot of this book is exploring this idea of having a feeling of loneliness despite having people around you and it's something that's personal to me might not really have anything to do with my past. It's just like part of my personality. And yeah, that was one of the main topics I started with.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Craft them into a song, and so I left them be for a while and then a couple of weeks later I went back to them and I was like, oh, I think these could be poems, not songs. They don't need to be like shoehorned into a pop song structure. And so from that moment onwards, I started to write pretty much every single day the whole summer. And I discovered that this medium could afford me so much space to explore the past definitely to be more literal as well because I think with pop songs there's an element of fantasy which I really love. But I think with poetry it just allowed me to expand on topics that perhaps I'd already discussed in music before.”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Well, I was on a shroom trip. Because this is the true story. And I usually don't write lyrics when I'm That state. However, that day I felt inspired and I was writing a bunch of stuff down and after the trip I was like, I love these lyrics, but I don't think I can...”

    2024-12-13 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | An Evening with Marina Diamandis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT