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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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 hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.
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I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.
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My laugh is filthy. I'd change it if I could, but it's become a trademark.
