Kaya Scodelario Quotes
Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.
