Bel Powley Quotes
I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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The devil made me do it.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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I love doing every role I do!
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I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.
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The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.
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I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.
