Tilda Swinton Quotes

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

Tilda Swinton

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• I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

  

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

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• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

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  • Trying
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• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
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• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

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  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
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  • Year

• I look formidable.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Look
  • Formidable

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Day

• Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Color

• Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Time
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• The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

  

  Dan Pink
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• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
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• Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Conditions
  • Reflexes
  • Resistances

• But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • People
  • Men
  • Children

• Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.

  

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  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

  

  Raquel Zimmermann
  • Important
  • Extremely
  • Shoots

• I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

  

  Sydney Schanberg
  • Come
  • Insult
  • Change Costs

• I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Character