Charlize Theron Quotes
I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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I love football.
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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
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Writing is the beast unto itself.
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
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I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.
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I thought the script was very good, but something was missing. I wanted to come out with a cane, come down slowly, have it stick into one of the bricks, get up, fall over, roll around, and they all laugh and applaud. The director asked, ‘what do you want to do that for?’ I said from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.
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I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
