Kate Beckinsale Quotes
As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
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When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
