Olivia d'Abo Quotes
I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.Olivia d'Abo
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler -
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
Eddie Huang -
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
Maira Kalman -
My health is fine.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
F. Gary Gray
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
Adam Hamilton -
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
Kate Beckinsale -
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine -
Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
Hannah Simone -
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
Walter O'Brien -
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
Larry Hagman -
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
Aaron Swartz -
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
Xenophon -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Ida B. Wells
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I didn't deserve to get my title stripped after three ACL reconstructions. I didn't deserve to be out for four years. But it happened to me, and so I definitely learned over the years that you don't deserve anything. Nothing you have is yours. Everything is up for grabs in this world.
Dominick Cruz -
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
Pele -
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
Jerome K. Jerome -
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
Walt Mossberg -
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
Luke Evans -
I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.
Olivia d'Abo