Laurence Olivier Quotes

I think that bloody old National nearly killed me.

Laurence Olivier

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• In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

  

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• When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

  

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• I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

  

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• I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

  

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• Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

  

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• Girl, tell me only this:That I'll have your heart for always.And you want me by your side,Whispering the words 'I'll always love you.'

  

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• Can thought be silent?

  

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• 'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'

  

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• It often happens that reforms merely have the effect of transferring the undesirable tendencies of individuals from one channel to another channel. An old outlet for some particular wickedness is closed; but a new outlet is opened. The wickedness is not abolished; it is merely provided with a different set of opportunities for self-expression.

  

  Aldous Huxley
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• To-day, artists and those who love artists seem like fossils. Imagine a megatherium or a diplodocus stalking the streets of Paris! There you have the impression that we must make upon our contemporaries. Ours is an epoch of engineers and of manufacturers, not one of artists.

  

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• Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

  

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• Using vehicles as weapons is a tactic that has often used by Palestinian terrorists to target Israelis, but in 2014, an ISIS spokesman had encouraged such vehicular attacks in the West, saying of ISIS' enemies, 'Run him over with your car.'

  

  Peter Bergen
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• I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.

  

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• I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

  

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• I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
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• I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
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• I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

  

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• A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.

  

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• ...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

  

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• We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.

  

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• The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

  

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• But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

  

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• I think that bloody old National nearly killed me.

  

  Laurence Olivier