Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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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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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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People want me to run for president all the time … I don’t like it. Can you imagine how controversial I’d be? You think about Bill Clinton and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?
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An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.
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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
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I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.
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We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians.
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I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
