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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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.
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 -
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies -
The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
Edgar Wright
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Not many people do what Jameis Winston did: first year as a starter winning a national championship, only one loss in his two years as a starter. He's got great charisma. He's polarizing for some people, but he's a rare talent.
Jon Gruden -
I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
Fleur East -
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
Youssou N'Dour -
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
David Attenborough -
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
Eliza Farnham -
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