Shailene Woodley Quotes

I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget. You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.

Shailene Woodley

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 15, 1991

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I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'

Angela Bassett

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When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Marya Hornbacher

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Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.

Molly Bloom

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I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching 'Ninja Turtles' movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he'd make them practice backflips as punishment - and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too.

Jason Mitchell

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'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Jonathan Raban

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There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.

Dianne Reeves

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The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's so much about our whole legacy that was stolen and that we lost in the Transatlantic slave trade that we'll never find out.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

Bonnie Hammer

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Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.

Shelby Lynne

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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Niels Bohr

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