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.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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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.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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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.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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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.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
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Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
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I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.
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Modeling was never a passion of mine.
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Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.
