Olivia Wilde Quotes
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.
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I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
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I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.
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I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
