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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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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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 beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.
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I'm not a gambler.
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I think you never leave what you learn.
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I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.
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Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.
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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.
