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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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.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
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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.
