Dawn French Quotes

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Up
  • You
  • Try

• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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  • Business
  • Trouble

• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Light
  • Action

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Up
  • Want
  • Hard

• As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Loss

• You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • You
  • Story

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Children
  • Talk

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
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  • America
  • Help

• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Time
  • Play
  • Wanted

• I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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  • Girl
  • London

• Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Different
  • Single

• Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Past

• Red candy is my favorite - I like red string licorice, Swedish Fish, and red gum balls.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Red
  • Candy

• I personally don't like guns at all, so pointing a gun at someone or having a gun pointed at me makes me feel very unbecoming. I think they're a scourge.

  

  Bob Morley
  • Gun

• Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.

  

  Jenna Wortham

• African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

  

  Alveda King
  • Opportunity
  • Politics
  • Barack Obama

• I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

  

  Dawn French
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  • Lesbian