Olivia Williams Quotes

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

Olivia Williams

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• I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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  • Watch

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
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• It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Stars

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Best

• Yoga is a life-saver.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Life
  • Yoga

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Job
  • Acting
  • First

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Picture
  • Dying

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Professional

• Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • People
  • Great
  • Listening

• I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Word

• A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Mother
  • Word
  • Season

• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Memories
  • Summer
  • Weekend

• Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father