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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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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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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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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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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When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.
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If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
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Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
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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.
