Charli XCX Quotes
A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
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To be human means to feel inferior.
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Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
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For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
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Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
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Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.
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I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'
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Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.
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The things I felt Baltimore would give me is a team that gives everything for each other and a team that wants to win and has a goal to win a Super Bowl every year.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I truly found myself beautiful and thought that I had the potential to model, so I always would do little poses in the mirror and things, but I never expected it to come to this.
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It makes me wonder what belonging to a place means. Charles died a Russian in Paris. Viktor called it wrong and was a Russian in Vienna for fifty years, then Austrian, then a citizen of the Reich, and then stateless. Elisabeth kept Dutch citizenship in England for fifty years. And Iggie was Austrian, then American, then an Austrian living in Japan. You assimilate, but you need somewhere else to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private.
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My time particles play with eternity.
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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
