Natascha McElhone Quotes
I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
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Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
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Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
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I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.
