Olivia Williams Quotes
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.
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A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.
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I feel like if they want us to dress a certain way, they should pay for our clothes. It's just tough, man, knowing that all of a sudden you have to have a dress code out of nowhere. I don't think that's going to help the image of the league at all. ... It kind of makes it fake. The whole thing is fake.
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Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.
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We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
