Chris Evans Quotes
I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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It was mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence, wherein the mind appears to play only with itself, that turned out to be the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe that are concealed by appearances.
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It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
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Be as honest with yourself as possible, and try to make friends with people who like you for you - not an iteration of who you are, or who you think you should be - but really like you for you. And when you're creating whatever you want to do in your life, just try to create and put out the truest version of yourself into the world.
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
