Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels really good because it kind of takes me back to when I was younger.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
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When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels really good because it kind of takes me back to when I was younger.
