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Naomi Watts Actress
People

"I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it.’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.’"

People Believe Cutting
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Naomi Watts Actress
People

"In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or as many people, or even myself, as much. There's more recklessness and more ruthlessness; you're not as considerate of how things land with other people I think."

People Thinking Land
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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
People

"Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia."

People Men Army
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People

"I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time."

People Thinking Mistake
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People

"What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up. He's provoking a discussion. He's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do."

People Art Blood
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People

"We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else."

People Thinking America
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People

"If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram."

People Jobs Followers
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
People

"It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome."

People Overcoming Charity
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
People

"We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time."

People World Acting
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People

"So many Muslims would tell you that they felt like that you had to - you fold it into yourself because people were looking at you and recognizing you as being the culprit even though, look, I'm American. I don't believe that the teachings of Islam justified those actions."

People Believe Teaching
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Lana Del Rey Singer-Songwriter
People

"With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people."

People Struggle Example
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Lana Del Rey Singer-Songwriter
People

"The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind."

People Writing Years
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