Darcey Bussell Quotes
Sometimes I regret that I don't have a bit more fun with money. I should have spoilt myself a bit more. Life isn't going to last for ever.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.
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Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
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I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it's kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. 'Here we are, struggling.' It's about people persevering and persevering and persevering.
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Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.
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“Everyone all my life has been telling me it's just a phase that will pass; that it's something I can be working toward for my old age instead of wasting time on it now when I should be making money. That was exactly it, except that all at once I no longer saw any sense in spending the best years of my life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part.”
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Sometimes I regret that I don't have a bit more fun with money. I should have spoilt myself a bit more. Life isn't going to last for ever.
