Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

Marcus Brigstocke

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Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.

Andrew Marr

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When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

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It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.

Tom Lenk

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My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.

RM

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I wanted to be an actress since I was really, really small. I knew I didn't want to sing, and I didn't want to do music, and words were the ways I wanted to express myself.

Rosamund Pike

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I'm a workaholic, and a lot of girls don't know how to deal with a workaholic.

Romeo Miller

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I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

Mike Oldfield

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Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

Michael Ritchie

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When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence.

Cornelia Parker

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I like to smile when I am playing because I try to show people that I am enjoying myself, and I think Ronaldinho did the same.

Philippe Coutinho

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The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

Scott Cook

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The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

Rex Tillerson

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