Alexandra Daddario Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'
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One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?
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Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
