Andra Day Quotes
I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.
Quotes to Explore
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.
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In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
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No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.
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I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.
