Lesley Manville Quotes
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.
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Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
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I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.
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Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
