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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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
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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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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
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After splashing icy water on their faces and rubbing them fiery red with one of the rough sweet-smelling towels, they came in and took their places at the big kitchen table. This morning the table wore a bright red-and-white checked cloth and a pot of red geraniums. Mrs. Campbell handed the girls their plates, each with a slice of ham and half of a crisp, tan waffle.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
