Kate Winslet Quotes

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

Kate Winslet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
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  • Birth: October 5, 1975

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I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.

Jerrod Carmichael

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Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

Melissa Gilbert

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I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!

Anat Cohen

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The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

Spencer Bachus

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Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take on new work. That's something that was really on our minds when we came up with it.

Stewart Butterfield

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When I'm practicing, I think I'm pretty focused, and I spend a lot of energy on making sure I get better, but once I'm outside the rink, I think, like anyone else, I like to enjoy everything that everyone else does.

Sidney Crosby

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My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.

Simon McBurney

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Leaving home early is always complicated. But when I arrived in Germany, I encountered an incredible structure built by the company that takes care of my career. They did not leave me wanting for anything. The most complicated thing was really the language. Otherwise, everything was taken care of.

Roberto Firmino

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Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Mary Gaitskill

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Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

Mitch McConnell

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It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become a parent, you're like, 'Whoa! It's hard work.' No wonder your parents always tell you off! They've done a lot for you.

Mo Farah

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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Douglas Coupland

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