Darcey Bussell Quotes
I need to have dark chocolate in the cupboard - Green & Black's is good, but any will do.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
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Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.
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I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.
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When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.
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I need to have dark chocolate in the cupboard - Green & Black's is good, but any will do.
