Dionne Bromfield Quotes
At one of my old schools, I didn't tell anyone I was doing my first album because I was worried they'd be like, 'Who does she think she is?' So I just let them find out for themselves.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.
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I wear modern... vintage.
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Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
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At one of my old schools, I didn't tell anyone I was doing my first album because I was worried they'd be like, 'Who does she think she is?' So I just let them find out for themselves.
