Charli XCX Quotes
I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?
Quotes to Explore
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don't believe I'm helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I'll resign.
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'I know what it feels like to have a broken nose. And ain't nobody hit you in it. It's really cause that shit that you snorted and put all in it. That time you thought I was finished no I just experimented and it helped me adjust and be ok, with being demented'
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Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.
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The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'
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I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?
