Bel Powley Quotes
I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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If you're going to play football, why not be the best at it that you can be and fulfill your potential?
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What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.
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I believe there is lot of untapped potential in the television market. With shows such as 'Bigg Boss' and '24' turning out to big hits on TV, I'm interested to be in it.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.
