Alesha Dixon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
-
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
-
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
-
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.
-
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
-
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.
-
My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
-
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.
-
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
-
I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
-
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.
-
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
-
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
-
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
-
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.
-
Love is a credulous thing.
-
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.
-
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
-
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
-
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.
-
We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science. Improving the way that science is done means speeding us along in curing cancer, solving the problem of climate change and launching humanity permanently into space.
-
My laugh is filthy. I'd change it if I could, but it's become a trademark.
