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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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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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter – with infinite subtlety – spin webs to keep me out of places where I hate to go, – and tell stories of me to people whom it would be vanity and vexation to meet; – and they help me so much by their unconscious aid that I almost love them.
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.
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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.
