Shailene Woodley Quotes
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
Quotes to Explore
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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My childhood dream? To play at Real Madrid. In 2014, before he died, I promised my grandfather who was from Avila, 110 kilometers from Madrid, that I would play there. It will be complicated, but it sits in a corner of my head.
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I hope to encourage people to take flight on their mats, in their lives, and in their hearts.
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We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.
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My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'
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For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
