Olivia De Havilland Quotes
I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
