Lily James Quotes

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

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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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• I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• 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
  • Confident

• 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
  • Kind
  • 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
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• 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
  • Life

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

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Good
  • Evil

• Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.

  

  John Calvin
  • Wisdom
  • Known
  • Acknowledge

• A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Fish

• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  

  Clara Barton
  • War
  • Troops
  • Prisons

• The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • City
  • Conflict
  • Friendly

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

  

  Lily James