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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Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.
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I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.
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I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.
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I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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My mum bought discounted tickets for shows like 'Cats' and 'Les Miserables'; I became completely enamoured.
