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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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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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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I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life's losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.
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The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.
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It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
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That's part of show business: the moving.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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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.
