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.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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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.
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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.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
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.
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I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
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Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
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The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.
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The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.
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I'm a huge fan of what 'Hipstamatic' is doing and all they've accomplished.
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When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
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I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.
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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.
