Gemma Arterton Quotes

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

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• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
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  • Manager

• My father was a lawyer.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
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  • Writing
  • Trying

• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
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  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Dream
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• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
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• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Oil

• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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  • Help
  • Realize

• Ultimately love is everything.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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  • Ultimately

• I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Strong

• How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Child
  • Wood
  • Carpenter

• My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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  • Father
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• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
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• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
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  • Always

• I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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  • Debt

• Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • May
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• My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Family
  • Gay
  • Tree

• The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Work
  • Done
  • American

• My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Pains

• I can't do anything quietly anymore.

  

  Jimmy Wales

• I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

  

  Gemma Arterton
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