Keira Knightley Quotes
I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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A good nation I will make live.
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In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
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It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I'd spent my whole life in southeast Michigan, working for General Motors. I was in a different part of the country. People didn't know what General Motors was, didn't care, or if they did, they might not have had a favorable impression. I saw people driving nondomestic vehicles.
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I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
