Olivia Wilde Quotes
I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
Quotes to Explore
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.
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It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
