Keeley Hawes Quotes

I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush.

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• I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Women
  • Mother

• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Truth
  • Saying
  • Negotiation

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Real
  • American
  • Group

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Congress
  • Property

• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Bird
  • Wings

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Habits

• The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Married
  • Dumb
  • Someone

• One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Together
  • End
  • Puzzle

• Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Bad
  • Political

• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Short

• I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Lazy

• Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• Alas, tears are the poet's heritage!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Tears

• 'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Power
  • Father
  • Society

• He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.

  

  T. H. White
  • Words
  • Sea
  • Leaving

• I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Flying saucers

• Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Commitment

• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Believe
  • Power
  • American

• I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush.

  

  Keeley Hawes