Charli XCX Quotes
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Villains are fun to play.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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I know how to win people over if things aren't going my way.
