Oliver Cromwell Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
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Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
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We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
