Elizabeth Debicki Quotes
Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
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In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.
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I consume music the way other people consume movies.
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Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.
