Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
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I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
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At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
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My life is European.
