Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • American
  • High
  • Water

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I love to write.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Love
  • Write
  • I Love

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Light
  • Single

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Real
  • Ideas

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Together
  • Feeling
  • Language

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Find
  • Jazz
  • Cartooning

• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Know

• I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Voice
  • Internet
  • Microphone

• When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

  

  Ann Beattie
  • Photography

• You lose only the things you have.

  

  Epictetus
  • Things
  • Lose
  • Have

• It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Life
  • Universe

• I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Self
  • Towns

• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Prove

• It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • Life
  • Spanish