Felicity Jones Quotes
I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
