Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes
I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.
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It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
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For years, my marriage to Prince was mine. The idea of exposing myself to the world... was terrifying.
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I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.
