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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I didn't feel self conscious 'cause my sisters and I all had thick brows, and by the time I got to the age that I could be self conscious about them, they were in style!
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I almost never get recognised in the street.
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Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.
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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.
