Kate Beckinsale Quotes
I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
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If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
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My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
