Olivia Thirlby Quotes
But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
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As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.
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That's what I love the most about being a quarterback. Everybody looks to you to make a play. They look to you to say something that's going to spark the team. I take full pride in that every single day.
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
