Agyness Deyn Quotes
I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I hate competition.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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I bat righty.
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Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.
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I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.
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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.
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If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
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I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
