Amanda Ava Koci (Ava Max) Quotes

It was very tough to get people to believe in my project. Everyone had their own ideas, and they wanted to mold me into something I wasn't.

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• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

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• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

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• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

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• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

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• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

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• I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

  

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• It was very tough to get people to believe in my project. Everyone had their own ideas, and they wanted to mold me into something I wasn't.

  

  Amanda Ava Koci
  • People
  • Believe
  • Project