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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When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
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I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
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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.
