Bel Powley Quotes
If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
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Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.
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In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
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If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.
