Bel Powley Quotes
My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.
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Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
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(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)
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St. Louis has a super-rich history of soccer, so I was very fortunate growing up to have coaches that played.
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My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.
