Darcey Bussell Quotes
I need to have dark chocolate in the cupboard - Green & Black's is good, but any will do.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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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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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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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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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
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I need to have dark chocolate in the cupboard - Green & Black's is good, but any will do.
