Katie McGrath Quotes
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
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Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.
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No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
