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Hm, is there really any wonder as to why Emma Watson was cast as Ila, the adopted daughter of a man chosen by God to be the one of the soul survivors of a global flood in Noah? Really, dude? You don't see why? Let's make it clear: Of course God would want that bloodline to create the next humans. Emma Watson is perfect.
She's smart, she's charming, she's beautiful, and she has an even head on her shoulders unlike other child stars. Watson can do no wrong. In fact, she's so perfect that she makes other people realize what bums they are. The actress been working since the age of 10 and went to Brown University on top of that. We tried to sell lemonade at age 10, but then got tired and took a nap.
In honor of God gracing us with 24 years of Emma Watson, here are 20 of her best and brightest quotes.
Written by Hope Schreiber (@HopeSchreiber)
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"I feel like young girls are told, I don't know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It's bullshit...I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter...There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith."
"Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love."
"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."
"The less you reveal the more people can wonder."
"I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult."
"I like men with quick wit, good conversation, and a great sense of humor. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me – I want him to be authentic."
"I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within."
"As much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn."
"I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult."
"There's nothing interesting about looking perfect – you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are."
"You can't go to the pharmacy without someone saying, 'Hey, you're the girl from Harry Potter!' and I'm like 'Yeah! Just buying tampons, see you in a bit'!"
"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."
"Believe in yourself and go for it."
"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."
"I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about."
"I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your best to get it. It is only when we use our hearts to do it, and fall in love with what we are doing, then can we really get real determination."
"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."
"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."
"Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there."
"I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself."
