Sally Hawkins Quotes
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.
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When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when I went to college. I just had a panic button in my dorm room, so if I pressed that, they'd be there within 2 or 3 minutes.
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I like to pace onstage.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
