Lena Olin Quotes
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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Everybody comes to film differently; everybody has different backgrounds. Just find whatever your lane is naturally. Don't try to force yourself into someone else's vision or try to tell a story that you're not passionate about.
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When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.
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I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
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Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration.
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We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
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My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye
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The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.
