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 remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
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I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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The space genre is timeless.
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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
