Aphra Behn Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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I don't need to impress children.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I'm 69 kilos; I don't have a burden on my back.
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'There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together'.'
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
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I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
