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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  Nancy Friday
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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.

  

  Kara Walker
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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.

  

  Aaron Douglas
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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.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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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.'

  

  J. Cole
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• Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

  

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• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

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• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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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.

  

  Pat Barker
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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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• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

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• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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• I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• I'm a member at Equinox because I love the classes. I also enjoy hiking, swimming, and skiing.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
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• The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

  

  Bill Veeck
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• A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

  

  Bill Dickey
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• It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Mother
  • Dream
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• Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Silence

• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
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