Kate Beckinsale Quotes
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough for all you think you would like to get done before you go to bed.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
