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 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

• Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo

• While everyone has First Amendment rights to free speech, the law strictly prohibits attorneys from releasing confidential and privileged information.

  

  Jeffrey C. Mateer
  • Free
  • Law

• We don't have to See eye to eye to Agree.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Eye
  • See
  • Agree

• Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Art
  • May
  • Reality

• I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Father

• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• '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