Tilda Swinton Quotes
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just... read a book.
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I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
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You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration."
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People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
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Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
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I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
