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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I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
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He said within his soul, ''This is the end: O'er all the earth to where the-heavens bend And hem men's travel, I have breathed my soul: I lie here now the remnant of that whole, The embers of a life, a lonely pain; As far-off rivers to my thirst were vain, So of my mighty years nought comes to me again'.
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We love being told good stories, and we love telling good stories, and all of our energy and our effort and our thought and our passion goes into telling the best story that we can.
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Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.
