Andrew Garfield Quotes
Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
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It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
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We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.
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When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?
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Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.
