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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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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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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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are enshrined in corresponding international documents, and finding a way to settle all disputes without destroying the entire foundation of international law that evolved as a result of World War II is a highly delicate task. Therefore, I would like to reiterate that we cannot second-guess the course, let alone the outcome of our negotiations.
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I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
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I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
