Rebecca Hall Quotes
Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
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Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.
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Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
