Gemma Arterton Quotes
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.
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Taste goodness before you recommend it.
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Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.
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You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.
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My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.
