#ak

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#cannot #days #i #longer #make

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#affairs #always #bad #britain #country

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#capital punishment #countries #crime #higher #i

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#dress #glamour #grew #i #i do

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#career #conscious #conscious decision #decision #did

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#also #exploitation #failings #friendship #help

I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #being #cut #fangs #had

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#around #been #emotionally #encouraging #enough

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#awards #box #box office #control #critics

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#home #i #make #money #really