- Nov 07, 2020
Girl Quotes
Reflections on identity, from childhood on.
This set of girl quotes includes a candid admission of feeling awkward and anxious in social settings, alongside a simple description of small-town roots. One entry recalls a childhood memory of performing where a parent once sat in the audience. Related reflections continue in our Girl Power quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.
- Have Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started, all the media I ever got was, 'Hey! There's this Indian girl. And even though she is Indian, she gets views and stuff.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Betty Cooper is still the girl next door - she literally lives next to Archie. And she's the blonde all-American girl; she's so sweet and forgiving, gives people the benefit of the doubt and second chances, wears her heart on her sleeve. But she's also incredibly broken on the inside, for many different reasons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the scariest movies I've seen are not considered horror movies, like 'Gone Girl.' That movie scared me. I can't watch it again.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terrible at sticking to any sort of diet. The more I think I can't eat something, the more I want to eat it. And I know this is the most annoying thing for a girl to say, but I'm just really lucky; I can eat pretty much what I want.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020