Oliver Reed Quotes
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee. . . . The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.
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We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.
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I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
