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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My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
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Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God?
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You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
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Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.
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I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
