Emilia Clarke Quotes
You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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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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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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Stay big in your work and small in your life.
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I am no politician.
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I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.
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When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
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I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.
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You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!
