Alessia Cara Quotes
The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.
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Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets.
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The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.
