Keira Knightley Quotes
And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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The world needs some help.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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We know that school readiness programs work, and the best ones work extraordinarily well. They are effective in reducing the achievement gap, which in Connecticut is among the highest in the country.
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Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
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And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.
