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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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
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When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
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I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
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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.
