Charli XCX Quotes
I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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You have to be so honest in comedy.
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Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.
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Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
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I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
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Of course I've felt racism.
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I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.
