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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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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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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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.
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We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are asylum seekers or others. I believe if you commit a crime you overstay your welcome, if we could extradite you.
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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.
