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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• 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
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• 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.

  

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

  

  Idi Amin
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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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• 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
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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
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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
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• 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
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• 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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• 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
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• I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

  

  Kanye West
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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
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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

• You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

  

  Joe Sakic
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• Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.

  

  Iman
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• The reality is the world's shifted; the world's evolved. We now measure ourself by total device space. We have a much bigger opportunity than we've ever had in the past to grow our business, but we have to rethink how we look at our business.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Business
  • Reality

• I'm happy to do voice-overs. I always have a good time doing them. I like to explore vocal nuance and accents and different people, different personalities. In a way, it is a lot more freeing than having your face up there.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Free
  • Funny

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

  

  Lily James