Emily Ratajkowski Quotes
I'd rather just be who I am and get the kind of movies that I want or the kind of modeling jobs I want based on who I am, really.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
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I never quite toed the line.
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I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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Sol realized what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called 'public’s right to know.'
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Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on 'Saving Hope' was so welcoming.
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
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Random speculative pseudo information should be removed, unless it can be sourced.
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I'd rather just be who I am and get the kind of movies that I want or the kind of modeling jobs I want based on who I am, really.
