Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
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I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.
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I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
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I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
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Rue Froidevaux seemed to go on forever, as if the distances stretched to infinity.
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Being deemed the most successful at prom does not mean you're going to do the best in your life.
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Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.
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Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.
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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
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When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
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You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.
