Blake Lively Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
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Michael Jackson did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would get bored. The biggest thing that Michael's done to children is befriending the ones that are in need and then abandoning them
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to invest in that anymore.
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I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects.
