Billie Piper Quotes
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.
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When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.
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Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.
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To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
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By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
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Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.
