Keira Knightley Quotes
When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.
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We are struggling with racism, but racism is also alive and well in many other countries. And what we must overcome is racism being the cause of conflict. And what we need to recognize human beings as human beings; to award merit.
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I speak to God every day.
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The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.
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Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.
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I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
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My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.
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Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.
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If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.
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When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
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I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes.
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I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
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It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
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I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.
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I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.
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There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
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Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.
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When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
