Anna Olson Quotes
Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
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Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.
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I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.
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Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
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Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.
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Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
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When doing a fantasy show - or a show with fantasy elements - the more you can anchor an effect to reality, the stronger the illusion is.
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Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60.
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A change of scenery can help everything.
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Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
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Quis leget haec?
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Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
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Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
