Kaya Scodelario Quotes
At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
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I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.
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I don't need to prove myself through competition anymore.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.
