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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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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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 can enjoy myself and express myself in the ring.
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
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I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.
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As an actor, there's no faking it.
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We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
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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.
