Naomi Watts Quotes
It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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Yeah, and everybody who moves out to L.A. gets that Hollywood thing in their blood, and their second record always sounds like shit.And if we end up there,we take it back. --On Fame
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
