Charli XCX Quotes
Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I like heels and make-up.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.
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When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.
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A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'
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Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.
