Cobie Smulders Quotes
I remember taking a self-defence class when I was 16, and of course I don't remember any of it.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.
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You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
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The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
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I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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I remember taking a self-defence class when I was 16, and of course I don't remember any of it.
