S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I don't know what love means.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!
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I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.
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I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.
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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
