Naomie Harris Quotes
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.
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They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
