Deborah Cox Quotes
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.
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You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
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If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
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But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big ways. We're writing things that might make people think about people a little bit, but we're not that important. I think a lot of writers think we are incredibly important. I don't feel like that about my fiction. I feel like it's quite a selfish thing at heart. I want to tell a story. I want someone to listen to me. And I love that, but I don't think I deserve the moon on a stick because I do that.
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Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.
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I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
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Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.
