Gemma Arterton Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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Money just draws flies.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
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Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
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I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them.
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The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair.
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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
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Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
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My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
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I was a tax attorney for something like seven years, so I was a tax geek. I was really into it. Tax is one of those things that people think is incredibly boring, but like any science about systems, once you get into it it, becomes incredibly intricate and interesting.
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People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.
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I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.
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You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.
