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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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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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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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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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'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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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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Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.
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When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.
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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
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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.
