Daisy Ridley Quotes
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
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I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.
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If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
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I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'
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I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
