Elizabeth Debicki Quotes
I did flirt with the idea of going to law school, but not for long. Maybe I'll play a lawyer one day - the beauty of acting is that you can try on so many different roles without having to commit to them in real life.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Life is like an analogy.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
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I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
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Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.
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News isn't even the truth on television.
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I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
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I did flirt with the idea of going to law school, but not for long. Maybe I'll play a lawyer one day - the beauty of acting is that you can try on so many different roles without having to commit to them in real life.
