Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
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As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.
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There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.
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I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
