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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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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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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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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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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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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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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It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.
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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
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I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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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.
