Kaya Scodelario Quotes
I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
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What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.
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September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.
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I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.
