Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes

I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.

Anya Taylor-Joy

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• Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Know

• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Good
  • Music
  • I Can

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Change

• I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • See
  • Back
  • Superstar

• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Friends
  • Wedding
  • Photographer

• My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • American
  • Parents

• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kids
  • Past
  • Know

• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Man
  • Health
  • Care

• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

  

  Ian Smith
  • World
  • Years
  • Everything

• Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Space
  • End
  • Clean

• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Society
  • Face
  • Celebrate

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Work
  • Doing Good

• At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Book

• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Teach

• The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Women
  • Pregnancy

• I have always been surrounded by women with strong personality and feminine: my mother, my sister, my aunts, my friends. I am fascinated by the look they can have - simple details such as a step, a way of speaking, a gesture, a way of wearing a garment.

  

  Jeanne Damas
  • Women
  • Feminine
  • Surrounded

• I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • Women