Gemma Arterton Quotes
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
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When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.
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Angels from the Lord lead and protect us every moment and every moment of every moment.
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Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
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Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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I was born with six fingers on each hand.
