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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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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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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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
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Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.
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I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.
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Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.
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There are certain things that don't mix well with MS. One is staying up late at night. Another is big, noisy crowds. Well, campaigns are staying up late at night and big noisy crowds.
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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!'
