Alessia Cara Quotes
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
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Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?
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When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.
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I'm always looking for new talent.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.
