Charlize Theron Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."
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I love being a woman and I love being feminine.
