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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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move.
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Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.
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Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.
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The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
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I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.
