Olga Kurylenko Quotes
I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I love bayou life.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'
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So in the act of giving, we distinguish ourselves from ourselves. In giving, we give ourselves and still remain ourselves.
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Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn't what to include, but what to leave out.
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A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.
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Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
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In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.
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I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
