Elizabeth Olsen Quotes
It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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Making music is fantastic.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.
