Emily Ratajkowski Quotes
My mum bought discounted tickets for shows like 'Cats' and 'Les Miserables'; I became completely enamoured.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people's journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.
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Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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A director has to be on the set when the crew is called and is the last one to leave at night. I'm not saying it's not possible, but that's partly why we're not seeing more women.
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They sat behind a screen, and grunted and wheezed over sheets of brown paper that looked as if ink-dipped and intoxicated spiders had danced across them.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
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I think anyone in life, everyone in the world, no matter what work they do, they should think of wanting to get on, to win, improve.
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My mum bought discounted tickets for shows like 'Cats' and 'Les Miserables'; I became completely enamoured.
