Shailene Woodley Quotes

I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.

Shailene Woodley

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

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• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

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• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

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• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  

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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

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• I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
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• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

  

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• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

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  • Democracy
  • End
  • Competition

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

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  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  

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  • Art
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• When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
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  • Audience

• You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

  

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  • Why
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  • Want

• To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • May
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• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

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  • Soul
  • Body
  • Diamond

• I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

  

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  • Actor
  • Still
  • Appearances

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

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  • Fun
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• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

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• It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.

  

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  • People
  • Life
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• The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

  

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  • Time
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• You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

  

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  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Silly

• It's very hard to just have a pure form like a Hulu or a YouTube to be successful in China because our view is, users come to a platform; they really don't care whether it is professional or whether it's a user-generated, or it's premium, you see. They want to come to a big database to be able to find the content they want.

  

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  • Want
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  • Professional

• I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Principle