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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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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Two eyes our souls possess: While one is turned on time, The other seeth things Eternal and sublime
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You gotta go do research on the way they treat like fucking chickens, man. Those chickens go through fucking torture before they’re processed and shit, have all sorts of fucking steroids injected in them and everything.
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It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'
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Of course, women are free to start any kind of company they want. But women sometimes identify different problems than men do and start different sorts of companies as a result.
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There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.
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I've always been a voracious reader.
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I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run.
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The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.