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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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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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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Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
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My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.
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What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.
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My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
