Olivia Williams Quotes

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Fashion

• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Loss
  • Benefit
  • Sovereignty

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Help
  • Desire

• There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Learned
  • Grateful

• If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Truth
  • Like

• We must defend what we have achieved so far.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Achieved
  • Far
  • Defend

• Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Nature
  • Risk
  • Mistakes

• If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Small
  • Small Things

• There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Inspired

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Devil
  • September
  • Friday

• I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Business
  • Questions

• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Free
  • Football

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Congratulations

• I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Life
  • Important
  • Strong

• In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Men
  • Color

• One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Up
  • Real
  • Scary

• In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Moving
  • Deep
  • Animal

• I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Career
  • Deep
  • Voice