Olivia Thirlby Quotes
I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
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I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.
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I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
