Alessia Cara Quotes
When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar - I've listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.
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A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
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When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar - I've listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.
