Anna Olson Quotes
As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
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Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
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You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.
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There is no such thing as muddle - obscurity, yes - but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.
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I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
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India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.
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Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
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Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
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Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?
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As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
