Kaya Scodelario Quotes

'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.

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• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Run
  • Fast
  • Slow

• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Kind
  • Happen
  • Lottery

• No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Try
  • Negative
  • Thinker

• I'm a girl that loves cars. I've always loved them. I love to drive with the windows down, sunroof open, and music pumping.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Loved

• What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Book

• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Father
  • Song
  • Nice

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Driving
  • Common
  • Questions

• I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Like

• I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Culture
  • English
  • Language

• Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Fun
  • Hurt
  • Nobody

• Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Thinking
  • Observation

• If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Death

• In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Women
  • Small

• If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love - so what difference would it make?

  

  Isaac Asimov

• I describe it as anti-profiling. It's not that I want certain people profiled – I just want us to admit that certain people require less scrutiny, and Jerry Seinfeld is one. When you see a famous celebrity go through security, treated as though he may just have become a jihadist when no one was watching… It's crazy. It is security theatre.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • May
  • Crazy

• Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Coffee

• I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

  

  Claire Bloom

• Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

  

  Baldassare Castiglione
  • True
  • Soul
  • Body

• Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

  

  Archibald MacLeish
  • Life
  • Why
  • Words

• To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response.

  

  John O. Brennan

• When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

  

  Brian P. Cleary
  • Thinking
  • Real

• 'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.

  

  Kaya Scodelario