Oliver Sim Quotes
To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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I don't like people knowing about my business, and my situation, so I try to keep out of people's situations unless they come to me and ask for help.
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I've always had a day job and never been just acting.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
