Lily Collins Quotes
I've always loved big eyes, like those of Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. But my mother didn't allow me to wear make-up until I was 15.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'
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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
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I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.
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Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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I've always loved big eyes, like those of Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. But my mother didn't allow me to wear make-up until I was 15.
