Olivia De Havilland Quotes

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

Olivia De Havilland

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• Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Stay

• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • Business

• Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Green

• I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagination

• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Need
  • Something
  • Sell

• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Want
  • Dresses

• It's a very good historical book about history.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Book
  • History

• On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Written
  • Tombstone

• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Important
  • First
  • Gun

• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Hope
  • Giving

• Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Kids

• I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Writing
  • Understanding
  • Travel

• Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Opportunity
  • Mistakes
  • Virtues

• Adele was introduced to me by a guitarist named Mike Hartnett that plays for a band called Rehab. We was just riding around, and he was like, 'Man have you heard this soul singer Adele?' and I was like 'Nah!' and we just rode to the whole CD, and it got to 'Hometown Glory,' and I was like, 'Man I have to sample that!'

  

  Justin Scott
  • Soul
  • Band

• The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Business
  • Soul
  • Talent