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.
Quotes to Explore
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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No, I try not to be a negative thinker.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
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I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
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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.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself
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I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.
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That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.
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Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
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'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.
