Lily Cole Quotes
I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.
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I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
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When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.
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I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
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If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.
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I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
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The big question isn't whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.
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Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.
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The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!
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I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.
