Deborah Moggach Quotes
I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I think people's interpretation of a body slam is different than the techniques.
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The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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Economy was always 'elegant', and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.
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I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
