Olivia Wilde Quotes
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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What makes the music business wrong is when executives start to believe that they’re more important than the artists,I’ve never gotten to that place.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
