Kate Winslet Quotes
You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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Golf is not easy.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Act because you love to act.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.
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I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
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Iranian young people are one of the most pro-American populations in the Middle East.
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On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
