Kate Winslet Quotes
Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.
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The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio with both Marty Stuart and Vince Gill.
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It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.
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For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.
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Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
