Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

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• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Mission

• Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Proud

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Like
  • Process
  • Ups And Downs

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Choose

• I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Way

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Want
  • Show
  • Just

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Different
  • Situation
  • Libya

• There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Power
  • Happy

• Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Years
  • Difference
  • Holocaust

• In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • School
  • Fake
  • Creating

• I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story that we can unravel because it's something that people have shied away from for very obvious reasons. The opportunity to deal with some of that aftermath and the sensitivity, we can use that, and it will be a really neat thing.

  

  Brian Wayne Peterson
  • People
  • Story
  • 9/11

• I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Sleep
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• I just love to sing and dance and act. Being on stage is an amazing feeling.

  

  Maude Apatow
  • Feeling
  • Amazing
  • Dance

• Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • God
  • Christian

• I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas