Alejandro Ghersi (Arca) Quotes
When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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I was born free.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.
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There is no linguistic war in Montreal.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.
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I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.
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This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
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When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.
