Alessia Cara Quotes
Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
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Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone.
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Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
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I read recently that someone set up a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots in America. The idea being that if something robotic can have responsibilities then it should also have rights.
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Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.
