Dionne Bromfield Quotes
I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
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I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.'
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.
