Charli XCX Quotes
I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say what's in my brain, and sometimes it's great, and sometimes it's terrible.

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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
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The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.
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We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.
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I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say what's in my brain, and sometimes it's great, and sometimes it's terrible.