Darcey Bussell Quotes
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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
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When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with, without understanding the pact between a lifestyle brand and its consumer base and how that really transformed the global economy in the 1990s.
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I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
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The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.
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I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.
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The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.
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Selfishness is the only real atheism.
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It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.
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I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.
