Susan Boyle (Susan Magdalane Boyle) Quotes
It was nerve-racking to begin with but once I started and the audience accepted it I relaxed. It has been surreal.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
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There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
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A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.
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Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
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I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world with it. Romy did all those writing sessions. I would love to do what Romy's done and experience that other side of the pop machine. It sounds terrifying and, at times, a little bit soulless. That's a real pet peeve of mine, when people talk about songwriting in a cynical way. But having said that I still want to do it, just to know what it's like.
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Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
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It was nerve-racking to begin with but once I started and the audience accepted it I relaxed. It has been surreal.
