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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• 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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• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

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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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• I don't feel closeted.

  

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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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• Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

  

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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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• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to 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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• From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.

  

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• I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

  

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• The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

  

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• I was not a punk rocker, absolutely not, but I certainly knew quite a lot of them, and I definitely went to the Mab - it was raw, interesting intense scene, so I was very drawn to it, but I was a total outsider.

  

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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.

  

  Keira Knightley
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