Olivia Colman Quotes
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I have learned to be patient.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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My father is an amazing person.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
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Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"
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Forgiveness.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
