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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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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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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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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Much as I wish it were not so, we do live in a dangerous world. It has, in fact, always been this way. Our earliest ancestors had to worry about predators, natural disasters, disease, and - unique among our species - attacks by other people.
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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I didn't change the world.
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Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.
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To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.
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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.
