Daisy Ridley Quotes
Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
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My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.
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When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
