Olivia Colman Quotes
I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
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I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.
