Olivia Williams Quotes
I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
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Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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Words are but empty thanks.
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I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
