Oliver Burkeman Quotes
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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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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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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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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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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We know that families and kids are going to be an important part of our audience, so we've always made sure that we've picked subject matter that was appropriate for kids. But I think if you try to target a movie to kids, you're going to fail.
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Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.
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People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
