Monique Roffey Quotes

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

Monique Roffey

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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

Jim Henson

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I don't know anything about the history of music.

Sia

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There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.

Tom Sturridge

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We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion.

Ronnie Barker

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I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

Jayson Blair

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My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

Joss Whedon

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Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

Jason Alexander

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I was on 'Desperate Housewives' and that was my crash course on being on national television topless. Also, I do what I can in between scenes: push-ups, a little free weights. I knew going in it would be a big part of the show.

Josh Henderson

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Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Conrad Black

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Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Bobby Keys

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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

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