Marianne Jean-Baptiste Quotes

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 26, 1967

Topics

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Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.

Jim Nabors

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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Ann Landers

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Dust is part of rural America. It is completely unreasonable for the EPA to put a price tag on communities for carrying out activities essential to their well-being. This is a prime example of federal regulations gone too far.

Stephen Fincher

AmericaPriceWell-BeingDustOut

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

Stella McCartney

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The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

WaitingIdeasSittingInsideGenes

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Simon Van Booy

YourselfSpaceLandscapeYouNeed

People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.

Tom Frieden

PastPeopleMoreStillThanCause

There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.

Mary Steenburgen

HeartDecisionsStrategyCareerBeat

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

Dick Cavett

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And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Christo

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As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

Chris Van Hollen

WarSayingKnowSaidUnderstandWho

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

Allen West

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