I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not … - Thandie Newton

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A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

Thandie Newton

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

Film, Kind, Thing, Use, Work

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Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our crazy selves are living with each other, and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.

Crazy, Crucially, Epidemics, Figure, Figuring, Self

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Baby, Drawbacks, Skin, Skins, Wiser, Younger

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

Anymore, Done, Exist, Moment, Past, Reality

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

Ifs, Inspiration, Life, Living, Mistaking, Motivation

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

Actor, Movie, Roles, Stars, Successful

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An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil. . . Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.

Animal, Choice, Distinction, Good, Mean, Men

Kelley Armstrong

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

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Seth

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

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Kathy Ireland

We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations.

Abortion, Crisis, Pregnancy, Situations, Support, Women

Kim Basinger

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.

Away, Dad, Entertained, Real, Think, Thinking