Rita Ora Quotes

“It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.”

“It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.”

“My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.”

“My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.”

“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.”

“I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.”

“I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.”

“I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.”

“Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.”

“If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.”

“I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.”