Darcey Bussell Quotes
I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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I love doing every role I do!
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I don't like to look typical.
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When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
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I've been playing drums since I was 7.
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It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.
