Alexa Chung Quotes

I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Live
  • City
  • Born

• There is nothin' like a dame.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Like
  • Dame
  • Nothin

• I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Birthday

• So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Impossible
  • Divorce
  • Islam

• It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Style
  • Military
  • Army

• It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Moment
  • Grow

• If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Music
  • Believe

• The Gospel has to be the norm.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Gospel
  • Norm

• The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Men
  • Together

• I had a great time with John Duigan; he's pretty amazing.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Care

• I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • News
  • Watch
  • Obsessed

• The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments, and big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Serious
  • Silly

• 'What’s that all about?' Golden said to his wife, a rhetorical question. She looked at him and said nothing, a non-rhetorical answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Question
  • Wife

• I wonder where that bat is now? Maybe he's sitting in Bat Heaven somewhere, with his own bat roadies...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Heaven
  • Wonder

• Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, and only when packaged to fit the advertising appropriation of a sponsor, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy...

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Sound

• Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Death
  • Night
  • Darkness

• Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Director

• By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

  

  David Whyte
  • Society
  • Interesting
  • Poetry

• I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

  

  Alexa Chung