Olivia d'Abo Quotes
With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
Olivia d'Abo
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
Pamela Adlon
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Kate Mulgrew
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
J. Philippe Rushton
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
Parker Posey
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
Sam Neill
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My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
Felicity Jones
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
Malcolm Lowry
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
Carl Sagan
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Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
John Updike
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If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil' comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I'm at a point where I don't have much time to play around anymore, so I don't really get started on the games if I won't be able to finish them.
Ben Schwartz
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I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.
Jennifer Grey
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Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
Billy Gibbons
ZZ Top
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Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
Joan Didion
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
Olivia d'Abo
