Elizabeth Olsen Quotes
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.
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My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.
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Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.
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They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
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Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, 'I love Captain Jack Sparrow.'
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It just kind of continues to be strange and interesting to me to try to understand what other people are looking for. And this also just comes from getting older. You look at the stuff certainly that's coming out of Hollywood these days, and you go, "Did what came out of Hollywood when I was a kid make more sense, or was it just that I was in the demographic then?" But I certainly feel increasingly confused and disconnected from it.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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I've always loved being a student.
