Gemma Arterton Quotes
I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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There are some who believe that secularism and Islam are not compatible. But Muslims should show everyone that this is not the case. It's up to them to show that you can be French and Muslim and still respect secular rules.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
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I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
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The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.
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I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.
