Charli XCX Quotes
I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
-
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
-
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-
My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
-
You mustn't upstage the bride.
-
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
-
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
-
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
-
You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
-
Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
-
For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
-
I love books.
-
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
-
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
-
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
-
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
-
You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.
-
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
-
I didn't want to make a caricature version of Elektra.
-
I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.
