Naomi Watts Quotes
Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
Quotes to Explore
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked.
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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Home is here in London and always has been.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
