Vanessa Kirby Quotes

Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.

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• I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Fitness
  • Freak
  • Exercises

• I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • Mystery

• It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I could never take orders from anyone.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Never
  • Take
  • Could

• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mind
  • Religion
  • Understand

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Know

• When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Work
  • Done
  • Art

• If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Hell

• I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Best
  • Vision

• We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Power
  • Will
  • Debt

• When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Energy
  • Me

• I'm inspired by history, different periods.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Different
  • History
  • Inspired

• Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guantanamo
  • Be Closed

• 'I cannot live with myself any longer.' This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. 'Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.' 'Maybe,' I thought, 'only one of them is real.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Real

• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• This is my question, for life: have we retired the phrase, 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me'? Is it legal for me to say, 'I endorse hate speech, I don't give a fuck'? I want hate speech. Why can't I hate you...in speech?

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • May

• Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

  

  Estelle Freedman
  • Achieve
  • Result
  • Feminism

• The yielding marble of her snowy breast.

  

  Edmund Waller

• I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to tie together and make sense together. I'm not like, "Oh, I want to explore this idea." That's just not how the creative process works for me. It's more like something strikes me, or finds me, and then I wrestle with it after that. I don't sit back in my armchair, like, "What kind of philosophy can I explore today?"

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Song

• Your man Flavor Flav is living!

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Man
  • Living
  • Flavor

• How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

  

  Black Hawk
  • Language
  • Wrong
  • Whites

• Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.

  

  Vanessa Kirby