Olivia Wilde Quotes
I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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I'm a very stereotypical person... and that's part of my flavor, I guess, because I tell it like it is.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
