Olivia Wilde Quotes
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
