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
  • Daughter

• 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

• Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

  

  David Mixner
  • Friend
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Power
  • Success

• The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

  

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

• When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!

  

  Daymond John
  • Money
  • Weekend

• See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Weekend

• 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