Kate Winslet Quotes
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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Golf is not easy.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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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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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.
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There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made.
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I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
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Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.
