Billie Piper Quotes
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov -
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.
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The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.
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The actors work out how to create the show with me during the rehearsals. They owe it to themselves and each other to maintain that contract regardless of what the critics say.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
