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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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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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 mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.
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Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
