Gabrielle Aplin Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.
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I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.
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And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
