Kaya Scodelario Quotes
We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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Before training, I eat slow-release energy food, such as porridge or muesli, especially in the morning. Afterwards, I eat protein so my muscles are able to recover, such as a protein bar followed by a meal of chicken and vegetables. I always stay hydrated during workouts by drinking plenty of water throughout.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same principles.
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We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.
