Charli XCX Quotes
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I live a normal life.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
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I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
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I think big brows are pretty cool.
