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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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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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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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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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You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.
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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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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
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The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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.
