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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• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  

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• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  

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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.

  

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

  

  Wallace Stevens
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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.

  

  Ian Anderson
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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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  

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• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  

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• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

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• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

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• When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...

  

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• I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25 - but still look fabulous together.

  

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• He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

  

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• The U.K. military role in Iraq ended a very long way from success.

  

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• I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

  

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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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