Zoe Kravitz Quotes
My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.
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And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.
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The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed to give too much thought to where I fit on the racial spectrum. But there were times when I would run up against someone who was interested in figuring out what race was. That would come as a surprise, and in some cases, like a slap in the face.
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I'm a big historical-fiction fan.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
