Ellen Key Quotes
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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With Benghazi, I don't see anyone saying, 'Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It's my fault.' I haven't heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that's just unbelievable to me.
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Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.
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I did some plays in high school which I had a good time doing.
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The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
