Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
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I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.
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Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
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I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.
