Kaya Scodelario Quotes
I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
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I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.
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In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.
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The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
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I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
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I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.
