Olivia Williams Quotes

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

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• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Best
  • Opinion
  • Georgia

• For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Use

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Children
  • Black

• In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Life
  • Business
  • Myself

• Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Me
  • Stage

• Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • May
  • Fun

• In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Fact
  • Analysis
  • Superpower

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Find
  • Grateful
  • Be Grateful

• My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Want
  • Loved
  • Neighbor

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Some

• When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Family
  • Wife

• You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • People
  • Life
  • Soul

• There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Week
  • Intelligence
  • Planes

• My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

  

  Olivia Williams
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