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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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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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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You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
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We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
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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.
