Olivia Wilde Quotes
What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.
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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
