Keira Knightley Quotes
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.
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People do write books.
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I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.
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The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
