Keira Knightley Quotes

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

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• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

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• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

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• I just want to do my job.

  

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• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

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• Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.

  

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• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

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• I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

  

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• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

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• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

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• With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.

  

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• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  

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• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

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• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

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• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

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• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

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• You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

  

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• Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

  

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• Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

  

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• All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

  

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• Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.

  

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• A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Women
  • Today