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2519 Activist Quotes

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Affair Arts Beginning Box
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

Am Avoid Become Becoming
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As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

Adrenaline Being Child Even
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I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

Actually Always Been Elizabeth
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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

Advisable America Back Bathroom
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My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

Been Cinematic Crush Has-Been
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Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.

Anyone Clothing Fair Fair Trade
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I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.

Amazing Christopher Designer Even
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I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

Because Brought Genuinely Had
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I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

Attention Because Conversation Dinner
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I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Act Around Different Different Ideas
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I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.

Head Heady Lot Person
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I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.
Bad Bad Things Because Enjoy
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I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

Anyone Belonged Birthday Birthday Party
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I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

Acting Any Been Being
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With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

Been Films Gone Harry
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I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

Brand Brought Chanel Him
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I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion, and I love vintage.

Crazy Eclectic Encourages Fashion
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It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

Door Down Every Every Time
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I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

About Avoid Become Becoming
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Accent Along American American Accent
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I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

About Eight Got Pairs
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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Art Done Gone Harry
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

Almost Another Any Asking
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But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

Constrained Felt Idea Little
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I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.

Am Day Every Every Day
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The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

Big Big Difference Difference Entertainment
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I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

About Awful Brown Bullied
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It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

About British Describe Experimenting
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Could Different DifferentThings
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It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

Book Geeky Greatest Harry
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I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Always Any Asking Because
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Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.

Brothers Dan Like Me
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I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

About Academics Around Going
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Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

Anywhere Days Even Go
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All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

Because Everyone Follow I Can
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I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

Being Change Choice Clothes
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I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould.
Celebrity Consider Fit Mould
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I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

Actress Campaigns Like Lot
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Human rights na my property So therefore, you can't dash me my property.

Human right Dash Property My
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Animal wan dash us human rights. Animal can't dash me human rights. Animal can't dash us human rights

Human right Dash Animal Us
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Day New New Day Strength
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Beauty Believe Belongs Dreams
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Average Discuss Events Great
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Cannot Must Things Think
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Begin Cease Contribution Die
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Bag Her Hot Hot Water
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Ask Fair Not Fair Others
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Choices Die Ends Lives
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Always Individual Obligation Only
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