Olivia Colman Quotes
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For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
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I have a great time with the kids. I'm always happy when they're around.
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I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola... That's my mission.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.
