Deborah Cox Quotes
Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.
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I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.
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Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy are absolutely the next great race for industry.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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Don't give up - our country needs you now more than ever. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our country: Our ideals are at stake, and we all have to fight for who we are. We are all, and should be treated as, equals, but the disparity in terms of income and inequality, for women and women of color, is significant.
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Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.
