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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The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.
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Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!
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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
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I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
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I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
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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!'
