Adele Quotes
I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.
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I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
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I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
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I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you.
