Dawn French Quotes
I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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My hunger is always there.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.
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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.
