Serinda Swan Quotes

Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Music
  • Expect

• I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Person
  • Model
  • Beauty

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • People
  • Woman
  • Happiness

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
  • Always
  • Write

• There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Time
  • Money
  • Communist

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

  

  Larry Buchanan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Player

• At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Time
  • Journey
  • Busy

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • She
  • House

• Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Privacy

• I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • House
  • Destiny
  • Politeness

• I'd been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an actor. I decided to just pursue both and see which won out.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell

• The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Shadow
  • Racism

• People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

  

  Kris Carr
  • People
  • Live

• You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Hero

• Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.

  

  Serinda Swan
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