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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When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
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What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
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There will never be a day where the depth of integration, unless it was all built from the bottom ground up, will be integrated as any of us would like.
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I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
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'Sometimes, Skorous,' Draco said, 'you are a fool.''Sometimes I am not alone in that.'
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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.
