Deborah K. Ross Quotes
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.
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My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.
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For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
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I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.
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There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
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The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.
