Haley Bennett Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
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As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
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It's important to read books and see people who look like you. It helps you know that you are not the only one or the weird one because you're a black girl and you are not seeing anyone who looks like you in these books.
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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I want to have a long career.
