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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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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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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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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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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We do it early like Cheerios and a bagel
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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.
