Olivia Thirlby Quotes
I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
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Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
