Kate Beckinsale Quotes
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I received free health care.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Ridley Scott - not that he shared it a lot, but you can just see that everything he did, Ridley always seemed to be just so clear. I love that about him.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
