Olivia d'Abo Quotes

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

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• I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.

  

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• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

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• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

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• I never worked in an office in my life.

  

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• One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

  

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• You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

  

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• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

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• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

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• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  

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• I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

  

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• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

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• Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

  

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• The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

  

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• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

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• I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

  

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• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

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• Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

  

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• It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.

  

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• What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

  

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• That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

  

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• When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.

  

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• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
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  • Time
  • Important