Oliver North Quotes
My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
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Drugs scared me.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
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A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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Our history is a passion for me. I feel that we leave out so much information and huge gaps in the American story and it makes it hard for people to really understand that we are all intricately related as Americans. So I am attracted to historically based projects because we entertain and learn something at the same time. I just love that combination.
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We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.
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One of the hardest things is to create hope.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
