Bibi Bourelly Quotes
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
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A black woman's handbook in this industry is, 'Whoa.' The chapter on 'Don't go there.' The chapter on 'How to say that nicely,' how to express that you don't like something so that you don't lose the opportunity - which is what we're doing all day long.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.
