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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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
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The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.
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Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. But there are some things that occur nearly in common.
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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.
