Rabia Basri Quotes
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.
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Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty
