Alicia Vikander Quotes
I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.
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My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.
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I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.
