Naomi Watts Quotes
The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.
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I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'
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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
