Emma Stone Quotes
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?
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Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
