Laura Robson Quotes
I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.
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Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.
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I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.
