Lily James Quotes
When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.
Quotes to Explore
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Sometimes we walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin.
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If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
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To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.
