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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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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.
