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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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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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.
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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.
