Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
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I consider protecting all students, including LGBTQ students, not only a key priority for the Department, but for every school in America.
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Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
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They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian faith was what inspired the movement and kept it going.
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In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
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I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
