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 never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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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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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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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 made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
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It was kind of a seeing-eye goal. We had a good screen in front of him and I don't think he saw it.
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Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
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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.
