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 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 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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.
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The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.
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When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.
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I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
