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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It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.
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You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it's a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.
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A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.
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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.
