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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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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The opponents of EEC membership inside the Labour Party know how much more difficult it would be to foist their brand of left-wing socialism on the British people if we remain part of a Community based on the principles of free enterprise and the mixed economy. We in the Conservative Party must vigorously oppose this ominous development.
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I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.
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Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
