Olivia Thirlby Quotes
I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
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The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.
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The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
