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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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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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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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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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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The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
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Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
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My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.
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I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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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.
