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.
Sam Shepard -
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
Olivia Wilde -
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir -
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.
T. R. Knight -
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy -
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.
Gary Sherman
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
Gabby Douglas -
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
Candice Swanepoel -
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.
Ted Cruz -
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar Degas -
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.
Gail Collins
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
Xavier Niel -
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.
Kate Moss -
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Barton Gellman -
I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
Tamara Tunie -
The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
Eddie Trunk -
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.
Dana Fox -
A bad laugh is a laugh for the sake of a laugh that's out of character.
Scott Ellis -
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
Daisaku Ikeda -
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
Norman Jewison -
Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
Nicola Adams -
My laugh is filthy. I'd change it if I could, but it's become a trademark.
Alesha Dixon