Elizabeth Olsen Quotes
I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society.
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'Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.' He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.Time will eventually prove one of us right.
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Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.
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CH: Have you told many fibs today? M: I lie a lot - it's really useful - but everything I've said today has been the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me... er... Trevor...
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A lot of people get Chicago wrong. I've developed this protective feeling about how we're portrayed, and at the same time, I'm acutely aware of the issues we face and the root causes of these issues.
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I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.
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I have a lot of albums yet to do.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used.
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Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to this community. This community needs to hear something very important that I'm the only person in the room who can say it. Please help open me so that I'm not frightened and speak through me. Let me be that channel so that I can help heal." You make yourself so humble that you really are like a flute and that music that comes out comes from el corazón. All the people you're connected to from that light that we call love.
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I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.
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It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.
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I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
