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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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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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 never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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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 was raised mostly by my mom.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
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Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you?
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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.
