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.Olivia Wilde
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
Ma Jian -
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.
Tatiana Maslany -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
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.
Edgar Mitchell -
If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Madchen Amick -
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna -
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.
Ramez Naam -
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.
Sam Neill -
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.'
Dan Brown -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. Hinton -
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness -
When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
Beck -
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Sam Donaldson
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In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
James Purefoy -
We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.
Neil Sedaka -
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
Jami Attenberg -
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.
Olivia Wilde