Olivia Thirlby Quotes

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

Olivia Thirlby

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• Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

  

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• The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.

  

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• I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

  

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• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

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• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

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• I was physically abused and I retaliated.

  

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• Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.

  

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• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

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• Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

  

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• Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

  

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• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

  

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• I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.

  

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• When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

  

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• When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

  

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• I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.

  

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• Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

  

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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  

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• I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.

  

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• Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

  

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• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

  

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• The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Live
  • Nature
  • City