Karen Gillan Quotes

I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

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• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

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• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

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• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

  

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• When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

  

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• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  

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• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

  

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• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

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• I like things simple.

  

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• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

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• Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  

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• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  

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• My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.

  

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• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

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• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

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• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  

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• I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

  

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• When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

  

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• The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.

  

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• I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

  

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• Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  

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• I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

  

  Karen Gillan
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  • Model