Alesha Dixon Quotes
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
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I'm a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It's not the government's job. You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government's job and I think where we've gotten confused.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
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My laugh is filthy. I'd change it if I could, but it's become a trademark.