Olivier Dahan Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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The boy in war is, to an extent found in almost no other form of work, inextricably bound up with the men and materials of his labor. … He is a fragment of American earth wedged into an open hillside in Korea and reworked by its unbearable sun and rain. … He is a light brown vessel of red Australian blood that will soon be opened and emptied across the rocks and ridges of Gallipoli from which he can never again become distinguishable.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
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I don't read the critics.
