Olivia Newton-John Quotes
When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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Sample clearances and roll-out plans is what separates mix-tapes & albums.
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America used to be proud of abstraction, and we have fallen away from it. The future depends on people trying to promote that abstract thinking. Not just in relation to music and jazz and the arts, but the economy, social strife, tension between people.
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In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
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To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
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When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.
