Imogen Poots Quotes
I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?
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Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
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I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.
