Olivia Thirlby Quotes
I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
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There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.
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People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
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All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.
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I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
