Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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I have a pig valve.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.
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In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.
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We learn from a passage in Strabo, that it was a dogma of the Gaulish Druids that the universe was immortal, but destined to survive catastrophes both of fire and water. That this doctrine was communicated to them from the East, with much of their learning, cannot be doubted.
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.
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I'm always working on new projects.
