Olivia Thirlby Quotes
When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
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Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
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The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
