Lily Collins Quotes
I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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Accept loss forever.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.
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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
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I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.
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What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
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I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.
