Elizabeth Olsen Quotes
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
