Darcey Bussell Quotes
Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
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I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
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Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you.
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How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?
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As a general rule-never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itself; for the child's attention is so taken up with the symbol that he will forget what it signifies.
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Like coming for a living.
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No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.
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Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable.
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Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.
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Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.
