Susan Olsen (Susan Marie Olsen) Quotes
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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I think of myself as an actor.
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Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.
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I guess it's like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of the day, and he was a little kid, like, with tennis shoes on, and they said 'Look at this lame!' They didn't use those words in those days. They said 'God, here comes this nut.' And he told them, 'I'm great!' And he sat with them, and he loved to be with them, and it ended up that he was great.
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BMX riding breaks down racial perceptions. Coming from New York City and being a BMX rider, that isn't something that's too common. I feel like for the longest time, I would ride through certain neighborhoods and people would call me a "white boy" because they associated white boys from California with BMX riding, and it bugs me so much because I'm completely not that. I completely don't fit that mold. It's really important for me to bring BMX riding to the masses and show people exactly what it is.
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If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
