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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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.
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So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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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.
