Kaya Scodelario Quotes

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

Kaya Scodelario

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 13, 1992

Topics

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I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

Jessica Biel

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It's always important to try and get a real sense of the world around my characters. I especially think it helps actors.

Andrew Haigh

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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

Robert Penn Warren

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I think I'm lovable. That's the gift God gave me. I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.

Ann B. Davis

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My parents always made me dress up for church. I really didn't want to.

Amar'e Stoudemire

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I'm a very practical, pragmatic capitalist. I was trained at Goldman Sachs. I went to Harvard Business School. I was as hard-nosed a capitalist as you get. I specialized in media, in investing in media companies, and it's a very, very tough environment.

Steve Bannon

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The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.

Shiv Nadar

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Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks.

Mary Pilon

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Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

Mimi Kennedy

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For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

Diane Setterfield

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The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

Derek Jeter

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Being closeted often put me in situations where I couldn't concentrate or even think straight.

Chelsea Manning

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