Kate Winslet Quotes
I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
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A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
