Saoirse Ronan Quotes
It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.
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He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.
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I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.
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The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
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It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.
