Orlando Bloom Quotes

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

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• I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

  

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• I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

  

  Nancy Marchand
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• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

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• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
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• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.

  

  Ilana Glazer
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• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
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• I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Real
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• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
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• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
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• New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
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• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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• Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

  

  David Jeremiah
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• My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

  

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• There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
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• You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Childhood