Deborah Mailman Quotes
Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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No man may make another free.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one to collaborate with, there's no material to look at. I haven't adapted something yet, so, I'm sure that would be helpful. When you're writing an original piece you have nothing.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.
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I'm proud of everything I've done.
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If I wasn't a fighter, I wouldn't be unique.
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People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.
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Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.
