Jessica Raine Quotes
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
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I think soul will always find its way into what I'm doing. It just comes from my root.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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Two eyes our souls possess: While one is turned on time, The other seeth things Eternal and sublime
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It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.
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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.
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I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.
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The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.
