Neil Oliver Quotes
My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.
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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?
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I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
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No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
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We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
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My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.
