Billy Howle Quotes
Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
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Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then, you never really know if someone is talking to you because you're a celebrity.
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My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.
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I don't like pain.
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'Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory.' ... They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.
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Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.
