Naomie Harris Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.
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I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
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Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.
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I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
