Katie McGrath Quotes

Being an actress was kind of like when you’re a kid, and you want to run away and join the circus, it's something you really want to do, but then you grew up and got a proper job. It was a dream, but I didn’t think it would ever be reality, and yet here I am!

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• Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Dance

• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Thrive

• Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • America
  • Want

• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  

  Ovid
  • Heart
  • You
  • Soft

• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Think
  • Civilization

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Think

• Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Leaving
  • Going
  • Bee

• People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • People
  • Food
  • Mexican

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
  • Change
  • Space

• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Always
  • Insecurity
  • Out

• I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Why
  • Me

• There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Me
  • Confidence

• Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Religion
  • Talk

• While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Real
  • Risk

• Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Character

• It's a generational thing. It'd be great if some kids grew up with me as that Jason Bourne figure.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Important
  • Nice

• My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Sweet
  • Prom

• Being an actress was kind of like when you’re a kid, and you want to run away and join the circus, it's something you really want to do, but then you grew up and got a proper job. It was a dream, but I didn’t think it would ever be reality, and yet here I am!

  

  Katie McGrath
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