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.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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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.
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My health is fine.
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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.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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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.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
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And the first five places are filled by five different cars.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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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.
