Olivia De Havilland Quotes
I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
