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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You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.
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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.
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When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.
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For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it.
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.
