Noomi Rapace Quotes
I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
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I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.
