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.
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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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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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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 get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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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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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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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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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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Communication is always 'propaganda.' The emitter always wants 'to get something across.'
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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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.
