Thandie Newton (Melanie Thandiwe) Quotes
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
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Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.
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Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.
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One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.
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I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.
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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
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Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.
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It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.
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If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
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The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
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And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures.
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
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I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
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With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
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Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.
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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
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I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
