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 think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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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 wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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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 is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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I think confidence is a true form of beauty.
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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.
