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.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Why
  • You

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Work
  • True
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Way
  • Amazing
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• 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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • End
  • Contract

• Golf is not easy.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Golf
  • Easy

• I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Music
  • Movies

• It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Me
  • View

• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• 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.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Dreams
  • New

• I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Think
  • Listening
  • Could

• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Respect

• I have never known stage-fright at any time.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Time
  • Never
  • Known

• 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.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Education
  • Information

• Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

  

  Mahavira
  • Death
  • Past
  • Karma

• It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the Devil.

  

  Ashley Bell
  • World
  • Art
  • Experience

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• Why, it's a perfect little city. If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. Take my car. It's wonderful.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Why
  • Perfect
  • City

• Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Perfect

• You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.

  

  Kate Winslet
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  • Movies
  • Look