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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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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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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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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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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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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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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In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.
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Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of the Democrat Party? You betcha.
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People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
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Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
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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.
