Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.
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Words and works eat not at one table.
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Part of why I think I have so much fun working in the mockumentary genre is that you can cut to pretty much anything at any time. People are now so conditioned to watch documentaries - they know how they operate, and that you can introduce a new character by cutting to them, and now they're in it. Similarly, being able to treat a sidebar idea that has nothing to do with your main story really seriously, the way the rest of it is being treated - all the pomp and circumstances lend themselves, I feel, to making comedy feel really earned and funnier and weirder.
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I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.
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I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
