Deborah King Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.
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When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
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As far as plans go, I never want to make any plans for my life, keeping to schedules. Obviously in reality, you have to do it to a certain extent, but this whole business we’re involved with is art to me. It’s making a nice piece of art. People expect you to turn on and turn off and fit into schedules and it’s a load of bollocks.
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Civility is the art and act of caring for others.
