Saoirse Ronan Quotes
I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
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I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.
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What don't kill me will just make me crazier
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I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.
