Susan Olsen (Susan Marie Olsen) Quotes
I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
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One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.
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I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.
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There's nothing sadder than being in a tribute band - especially a tribute band for your own thing you did originally.
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When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?
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I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
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Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
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This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.
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Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the time, it makes me look really old, so I keep it natural with nude or a natural pink. Though I did just do a shoot where they did a big red lip, and it looked amazing.
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I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
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Never fight with or disrespect your partner in front of other people.
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I remember one time I went to Craigslist to find something; that's how bad I wanted it. It was a pair of Raf Simons - this was like 2010. But Raf said he was going to make them for me.
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If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
