Fleur East Quotes
My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.
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A good bank is the one that does good to its community and a bad bank is the one that feeds the avarice of corrupt individuals. Very simple.
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There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
