Noomi Rapace Quotes

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

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• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cutting

• I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • School
  • Fashion
  • Loved

• I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Hair

• God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • God

• It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Aesthetic

• I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Writing
  • Support

• Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship - we certainly have not had an affair.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Freedom
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Future
  • Mirror

• If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

  

  Alexi Giannoulias
  • Small

• I like romance in films. I like love in films.

  

  Chris Messina

• I'm the kind of person who likes to hang out and observe what's going on in the streets, or in certain places. I used to do that a lot. But having to become an international superstar, I can't do that comfortably! But it's all positive, you know.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • Positive

• I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Partner

• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fire

• At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Live
  • You
  • Die

• There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Hate

• My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • People
  • Character
  • Father

• I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

  

  Noomi Rapace
  • Life
  • Character
  • Take