Alexandra Daddario Quotes

My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend.

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Know

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

  

  Sally Mann
  • You
  • Stand
  • Digital

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

  Kate Millett
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Black

• I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Early

• The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

  

  Manny Farber
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Story

• Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Pain
  • Baby
  • Tired

• I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • World
  • Dance
  • Tired

• Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Cleaning
  • Seduction

• People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Why

• I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Mind
  • Exercise
  • Plato

• I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Why
  • Question
  • Smart

• Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Revolution

• While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Book
  • Stop
  • Attention

• I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Myself
  • Grow
  • Plants

• Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

  

  Lev Yilmaz
  • Brain

• You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you’re going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there’s never a rhyme or reason. It’s, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen.

  

  Michael Lee Aday
  • Morning
  • Weekend

• Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Country
  • Home
  • House

• My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Weekend