Rita Ora Quotes
My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.
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The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.
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I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.
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I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
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What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecurities. She is looking for someone to make her feel safe, and he is looking for someone who doesn't answer back and is a trophy.
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My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
