Charli XCX Quotes
I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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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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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
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Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.
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I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
