Barret Oliver Quotes
I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I have always loathed working out.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.
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I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
