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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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.'
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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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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.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Politics has become entertainment.
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Herodotus says, 'Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.'
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There's this terrific kid in Maine who saw all the waste generated by straws handed out in restaurants. So he made up these little pop-up cards and asked restaurant owners put them on the tables to explain why straws wouldn't be handed out unless requested. Of course, the restaurant owners couldn't resist a 9-year-old kid, and so it worked.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
