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

• 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

• How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life
  • Sky
  • Tears

• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Failure
  • Thinkers
  • Skeptics

• To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Education
  • Obstacle

• Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Done
  • Use

• Though music was not in my blood, I always considered myself belonging to music, and that remained with me throughout my studies. The studies were my parents' wish, which I fully complied with, as one must be educated at the highest possible level.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Wish

• Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Music

• '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