Lily James Quotes

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

Lily James

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  Orhan Pamuk
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• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Way
  • Me
  • Fire

• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  

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• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

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• Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
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  • Hate
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• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
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• Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Individual
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• The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Breakfast
  • Last
  • Soldiers

• If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Song
  • Moon
  • Coffee

• I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Today
  • Want
  • Know

• There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

  

  Maggie Smith
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  • Audience
  • Actor

• I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

  

  Kate Spade
  • She
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• I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

  

  Kanye West
  • Good
  • Never
  • Learn

• Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Progress

• Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

  

  Kingsley Amis
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• Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Good
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• You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.

  

  Jason Sudeikis

• Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

  

  David F. Dinges
  • People
  • Sleep
  • Building

• I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Amazing

• Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Excellence

• For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

  

  Lily James