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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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 have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.
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One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.
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The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
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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.
