Daisy Ridley Quotes

Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Free
  • Because

• Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Truth
  • Fear

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Singer
  • My Own

• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Taken
  • Philosophy
  • Battle

• I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Care

• If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Playing

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Character
  • Career

• Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Car

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Important
  • Military
  • Budget

• If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Movie

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Just

• I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Galaga' and 'Tempest' and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he's playing 'Ms. Pac-man' and hold the phone up to the game.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Up
  • Game
  • Dad

• People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter, ... If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Fighter
  • Governor

• The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

  

  James Balog
  • Work
  • May
  • Home

• Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Star
  • Goals
  • Now