Olivia Wilde Quotes
I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I have been so lucky to have the support of 'InStyle' magazine. My first big women's fashion story was for them.
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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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I like a girl that takes pride in her appearance - looks are important to me, but it's also important she gets on with my friends and family. If my parents don't like a girl, then she's instantly a no-go.
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When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
