Darcey Bussell Quotes

When I started on 'Strictly,' I was terrified. Live television seemed like the most daunting thing in the world.

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• Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

  

  Damian Marley
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• Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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  • Long
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• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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  • History
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• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
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  • Insanity
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• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
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• I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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• When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  

  Yves Rossy
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  • Light
  • Dark

• I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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• Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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• If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

  

  Andrea Barrett
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  • Live

• I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.

  

  Parker Harris
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• The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Life
  • Character
  • Theater

• Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Movie

• When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

  

  Ian Bogost
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• When I started on 'Strictly,' I was terrified. Live television seemed like the most daunting thing in the world.

  

  Darcey Bussell
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  • Live