Olivia d'Abo Quotes
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire." There's no way of writing that down. That's because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited. If you said violins and woodwind that defined the sound texture; if I say synthesizer and guitar it means nothing - you're talking about 28,000 variables.
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If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.
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I spend about a year between novels.
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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
