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I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.


Alanna Ubach
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.


Anatole France
Tags: Well Mind Heart
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.


Brit Marling
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I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.


Roy Keane
Tags: Than Am I Am
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
Tags: You Think I Think
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A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!


Ashton Kutcher
Tags: Like Think Very
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
Mika
Tags: About Being Lot
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan
Tags: Fear Out Our
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
David Puttnam
Tags: Very Own Enough
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Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.


Steve Brown
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That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
Ben Barnes
Tags: Time You More
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.


Oliver Platt
Tags: Only Thing New
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
Rabih Alameddine
Tags: Me Think Always
I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.
Charlie Weber
Tags: Work You Think
A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
Adora Svitak
Tags: Like Things Way
The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.
Kelsea Ballerini
Tags: You Think Because
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
Catherine Keener
Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'
William Julius Wilson
I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
Chris Roberson
Tags: People About Just
I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
Ellie Kemper
Tags: Me Think Because
I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.
Kit Harington
Tags: Get Really Know
When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'
Carole King
Tags: Courage You Like
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Tobey Maguire
I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
Daniel Woodrell
I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.
Andrew Eldritch
There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.
Jonathan Ive
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I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.
Dominique Pire
Tags: Men Think I Think
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
Charles Stross
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
Edward Snowden
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Tags: God Faith Who
You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.
Dylan Moran
Tags: You About Who
As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that.
Tino Sehgal
Tags: Power Cool Like
I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do all my life. But I wasn't ready for all the added dramas that came along. There were times I fell out of love with music and thought about walking away. I thought I was happier when I was that girl at home in my bedroom singing into my hairbrush.
Rebecca Ferguson
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