Saoirse Ronan Quotes
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.
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What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
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When you're just moving forward and you agree that you're just going to stick with the results, you don't allow room for too much self-doubt.
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I would never want to move to L.A.
