Naomi Watts Quotes
Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose.
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A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
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The great thing about writing 'Deadpool' is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.
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A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
