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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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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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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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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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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I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.
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Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what happens to genetic material in space in real time, rather than looking at a snapshot of DNA before launch and another snapshot of DNA after launch and filling in the blanks.
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If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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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.
