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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My parents could not be more Italian.
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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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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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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 can't make pronouncements about the entirety of Iranian cinema, because there's such a great number of filmmakers and because of the diversity of points of view and filmmaking attitudes.
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The old laws of England - they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo - Liberty!
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
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Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?
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I need to have dark chocolate in the cupboard - Green & Black's is good, but any will do.
