Olivia Thirlby Quotes
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions.
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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
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There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.
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By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.
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I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
