John Oliver Quotes
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.
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The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
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I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.
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I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.
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There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
