Olivia Colman Quotes
The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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In the coming period, we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.
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I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
