Elizabeth Debicki Quotes
My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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I think and that is all that I am.
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My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.
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I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.
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Being in the movie School of Rock was really cool. Sometimes we had to do takes over, but Jack always kept us going. He was fun.
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My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.
