Billie Whitelaw Quotes

When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

Billie Whitelaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 6, 1932 - December 21, 2014

Topics

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Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way.

Amy Sherald

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When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Steve Jobs

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I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

Stephen Rea

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Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

Sophia Amoruso

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I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

Joshua Bell

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If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states.

Joseph Stiglitz

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The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

Dick Cheney

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I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Donella Meadows

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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

Donna Tartt

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When I go home, I still have to clean my room; I still have to do the dishes. We have somebody come every now and then to do that stuff, but my mom still makes me clean before she comes.

Christina Milian

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One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

Clayton M. Christensen

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Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.

Arancha Gonzalez

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