Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
The 'Chainsmokers' found me early on, before anyone knew about 'Hide Away,' and reached out. I heard the demo for 'Don't Let Me Down' and loved it.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
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Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.
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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
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In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.
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Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
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The 'Chainsmokers' found me early on, before anyone knew about 'Hide Away,' and reached out. I heard the demo for 'Don't Let Me Down' and loved it.
