I’ve always had a hunger and a determination, ever since I was a little girl. A lot of that, I think, comes from my mum. She is vice-president of marketing for a global management consultancy and has always worked very, very hard. I got my work ethic from her, for sure. She was taking a marketing meeting a few hours after she’d given birth to my baby brother.
There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, ‘This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.’ I just wish they’d say, ‘It ain’t the truth.’
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
“I spent my time on Game of Thrones growing into an adult, but Louisa shows my more bright-eyed and bushy-tailed side. On a personal level, it’s been really nice to allow myself to just be me, and she is a heightened version of that.” - Emilia Clarke for Harper’s Bazaar, July 2016.
“I was the drama kid. I wanted to be in the popular crowd, desperately, and I never was. I was hanging on to their coattails like, “Be my friend!”
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