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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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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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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Many people, including those from the BWF, don't really understand what the main problems in badminton are and what it most needs because many officials are not competitors.
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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
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I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells.
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My family are my friends.
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Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
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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.
