Kiesa Rae Ellestad (Kiesza) Quotes

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

Kiesa Rae Ellestad

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• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Care
  • Elected

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Focus
  • Safety
  • Uncertainty

• After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Biology

• All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Soul
  • Always
  • Old

• My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Character
  • Job

• I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Movies
  • Loved
  • Finding

• I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Art
  • Action
  • Watch

• Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Practice

• Grosser light vanishes into eternal raysOf all-pervading Cosmic Joy.From Joy we come,For Joy we live,In the sacred Joy we melt.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Live
  • Light
  • Joy

• The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you’re going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.

  

  Kage Baker
  • World
  • Power

• They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Good
  • Long
  • Real

• ...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Action

• In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Society
  • Dignity

• These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Music
  • Remember

• If in sports you have a life cycle for 10 or 15 years, in fashion, you have no cycle; you're in it forever as long as you stay healthy. And I want to be in it forever.

  

  Peter Nygard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fashion

• I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

  

  Paul Emsley
  • Different
  • Artist
  • View

• When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad