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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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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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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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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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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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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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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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
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Chucky is absolutely still a puppet. He will remain to be.
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I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.
