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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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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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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A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of.
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A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
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If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.
