Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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When you're a kid, you learn whatever your parents think until you start taking in media. Because all your friends are your age as well, media is the third parent that you ever have. So I think about that a lot, what visual imagery is teaching us, and media in general having a huge impact.
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Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.
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There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'
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You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
