Bel Powley Quotes
There's so much pressure on young people to go to university when they're 18 or 19, but actually, in the grand scheme of it, I don't think it matters to do it at that time.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
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So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.
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I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
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I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.
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When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose.
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There's so much pressure on young people to go to university when they're 18 or 19, but actually, in the grand scheme of it, I don't think it matters to do it at that time.
