Naomie Harris Quotes
I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.
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Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
