Andra Day Quotes
It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I love nature.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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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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Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
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The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
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I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.
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It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'
