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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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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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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We should be wondering tonight, 'Is there a world?' But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.
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If I had been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this.
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'The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.' p144
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I’m taking off my shoes.’’ ‘‘Fine. Shoes off.’’ ‘‘And my pants.’’ ‘‘Don’t push it, Claire.
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Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.
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We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
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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.
