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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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
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When you get frisked by the police at the age of 10, and they empty your schoolbag out in the street and kick your books around and calling you names because of where you live, you just get an anger towards everyone who is outside of your neighborhood.
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I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.
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I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.
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This is an enormous victory over the concerted efforts by the Bush administration to dismantle the Clean Air Act.
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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.
