Alessia Cara Quotes

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Alessia Cara

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 11, 1996

I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.

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Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

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I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.

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Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.

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I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

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Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.

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I always get criticized for my clothing because I like wearing jeans and T-shirts. There's nothing wrong with dressing sexy. It's just I don't want to be anything that I'm not. I'm not here to be a fashion icon. I am here to make songs.

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Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It's being happy with what you do and doing what you love every day.

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Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.

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I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

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You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

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The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'

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I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.

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I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write songs. I discouraged myself and thought it was so hard. But starting this process and learning just what it is to be a songwriter and performer taught me that you don't have to feel discouraged about anything.

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I don't wear a lot of makeup ever, even when I do interviews or when I'm on TV. I just keep it me, and I think it's important to show people I'm a regular person and regular people are beautiful, too.

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I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.

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In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

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I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

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It took me a while to really believe in myself or feel determined about it, but then once I realized that it's possible for anyone, and these people who are singers started off very normal... I realized that it was not that hard to do.

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I was a troublemaking kid.

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