Natascha McElhone Quotes
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I want a girl who respects herself. It means her standards are high and if I fit them then id be honored. If she's easy then what does that say about me?
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
