Olivia DeJonge Quotes
When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.
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I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!
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'The past is the past,' Harry goes on, 'you got to live in the present. … It's the only way to think. When you're my age, you'll see it. At my age if you carried all the misery you've seen on your back you'd never get up in the morning.'
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When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.
