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.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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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.
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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.'
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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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.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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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.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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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.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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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.
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I write novels and other things.
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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?
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.
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If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete projects will come to end. Investment cycle in the capital market can kick-start with the money of savers and investors.
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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
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'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.
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The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.
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Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
