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Romola Garai Quotes

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

Romola Garai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: August 6, 1982

Topics

History Justice Theatre Think Three

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

John Irving

Ignorance Start Long You Write Head

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

Matt Taibbi

Financial Crisis Say Compass Point

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

Stanley Hauerwas

Conservative Right Liberalism Though

I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.

Stella Young

Community Woman Political Early Late

I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.

Mary Steenburgen

Chameleon Languages

One time, I got to go play with lion cubs in Johannesburg. It was amazing. But it's difficult when you're on the road. We're always playing tennis, and there's a lot of pressure. So sometimes you don't get to do the things you'd like to do, because the priority is tennis.

Milos Raonic

Time Lion Amazing Road Pressure You

I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.

Lizzie Armitstead

Good Path Find My Own Own Been

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

Dexter Gordon

Yourself You Know Kind Understand

Some of us believe, with good reasons, that the Republicans are 'mad-dogging' Hillary Clinton with the Benghazi hearing to damage not only her presidential prospects, but also to damage President Obama's credibility.

Donna Brazile

Good Believe President Hearing Her

I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation.

Cornelia Parker

Work I Am Political Open Dimension

Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we've known comes so nearly to the basic protein of animals and humans as soybean protein.

Percy Julian

Animals Fifty Protein Weight Percent

Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.

Sebastian Thrun

Car Drive You Look Done Will