Mary Oliver Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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I'm not saying I came up with anything laughs. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, 'Look at all these gimmicks.' Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.
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I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
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You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
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Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.
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You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
