Darcey Bussell Quotes
I'm a grazer by nature - fruit, nuts - but I try to discipline myself and sit down for regular meals when the girls are around, as I want to instil good habits in them.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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People who hadn't noticed me, or who had written me off as a game show host, started to reassess me. There were people who hadn't seen me as a stand-up artist and liked it. Suddenly I was in fashion again.
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I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.
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They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.
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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
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I'm a grazer by nature - fruit, nuts - but I try to discipline myself and sit down for regular meals when the girls are around, as I want to instil good habits in them.
