Charli XCX Quotes
One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
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When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.
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We all have one other world we live in: our public world. Some people call it our public persona. This is the world where someone who doesn't know you privately, personally, or professionally hears your name and has some opinion about you one way or another. So the question becomes: where is integrity rooted? Some people think it's rooted in their public life. They spend all of their time trying to spin their public image. It's not rooted there, however. It's simply revealed there. People who lack integrity will have it revealed publicly.
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Work until your idols become your rivals
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You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.
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One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
