Olive Ann Burns Quotes
But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise.
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You express different energies at different times in your life.
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Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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You can say you're sorry 5,000 times, but that doesn't mean you mean it.
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But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.
