Lily Cole Quotes

There is a degree of role-playing in modeling, for sure, and you're also in a high-profile job - there are lots of similarities for sure. But when I'm acting, I've got to try and be present, and I've got to be emotionally committed to a character, both physically and intellectually.

Lily Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 27, 1987

Topics

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Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

Megyn Kelly

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When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write.

John Tesh

LoveMusicBikeWritingGamesRace

We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.

Sonny Bono

SameMissingPlayersActually

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil

LiveWarPeopleHelpCountryThings

We've dreamed of growing our company into something like Richard Childress has. We're working really hard, and we're getting more competitive. Hopefully, that becomes a reality.

Robby Gordon

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People should be allowed to roll out of bed and go to an interview; people shouldn't be telling you, 'You can't curse because it's not ladylike.' I don't believe in those standards.

Daya

PeopleBelieveYouBedGoStandards

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

Bruno Tonioli

PeopleSpeakLanguageBetterYou

So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.

Anthony Michael Hall

GoodChallengePeopleThinkSexy

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

Ashwin Sanghi

DayPeopleWritingAttentionPage

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

Alice Hoffman

BookStoryNeverOutTonePlot

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.

Alison Mosshart

TimeNot KnowingKnowingProjectHow

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

William Shatner

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