Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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My father had very little formal education.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Poverty is a state of mind.
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I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'
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Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
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I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.
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'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
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It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
