Olivia De Havilland Quotes
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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A heroic nature is very Greek.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
