Winifred Holtby Quotes
The damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
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Headline writing is an art form.
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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you
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The damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.
