Anna Olson Quotes
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Desire creates its own object.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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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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Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.
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Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.
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The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.
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Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.
