Kaya Scodelario Quotes
I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.
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Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.
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I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.
