Keeley Hawes Quotes
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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The dieting wars have got to stop.
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I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.'
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It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
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In general, people that we meet in person are pretty cool people - always very respectful, just happy to be there, happy to enjoy the music.
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I'm a size 12 and I'm very happy with it.
