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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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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I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.
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Be content with an ordinary life.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I think, is the job of an actor.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.
