Oliver Burkeman Quotes
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I love New York. Love it.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
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It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.
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You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
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Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
