Vanessa Kirby Quotes
My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
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My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
