Kaya Scodelario Quotes

Considering what the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film is about, I wouldn't be able to play Anastacia.

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• I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • City
  • Acting
  • Lake

• Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

  

  Kate Williams
  • Son
  • Sister
  • Kings

• The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • America
  • Feeling

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Home
  • Me
  • Alone

• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Different
  • Nature

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • People
  • Action
  • Problem

• Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

  

  Paige Butcher
  • Like
  • Things
  • Person

• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Done
  • Boss
  • Him

• There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

  

  Candice Olson
  • House
  • Black
  • Color

• I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Changes

• I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Always
  • Need

• I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• I turned. She was in a light, saffron-yellow dress of the ancient model. This was a thousand times more cruel than if she had worn nothing.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • She
  • Light
  • Model

• In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

  

  Peter Diamandis

• Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Vote
  • Genre
  • Dislike

• The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • King
  • Dying

• My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

  

  Ace Young
  • Writing
  • American
  • Together

• Considering what the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film is about, I wouldn't be able to play Anastacia.

  

  Kaya Scodelario