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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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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My father is an amazing person.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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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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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.
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In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.
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Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
