Olga Kurylenko Quotes
I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
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There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
