Emma Watson

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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.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Learning
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I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Fear
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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.
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Collection: Sad
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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
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Collection: Dating
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When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Travel
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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
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Collection: Sad
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I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Change
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It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.
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Collection: Good
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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.
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Collection: Funny
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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.
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Collection: Learning
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I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Romantic
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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.
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Collection: Famous
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I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Freedom
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I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Failure
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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.
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Collection: Birthday
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
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Collection: Romantic
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
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My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.
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I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
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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.
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I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
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All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.
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I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.
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I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.
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Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
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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.
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I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
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I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.
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I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.
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I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.
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I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.
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I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.
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I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.
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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.
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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.
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I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.
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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.
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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.
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I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.
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But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.
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I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.
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I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else.
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I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould.
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I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.
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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.
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I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.
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Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
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I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.
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I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
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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.
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