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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There's depth in my comedy.
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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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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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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 really believe that women run the art world.
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'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.
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My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.
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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.
