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.

Lena Olin

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• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Religion
  • Tradition

• My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Parents

• What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • Know
  • Better

• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Sleep
  • Better
  • Lie

• I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

  

  Verite
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Band

• 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.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Vision
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Looking Forward

• Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Care
  • How

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Think
  • Question

• I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Know
  • Opinion

• It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

  

  Baron d'Holbach

• 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.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Lost
  • Single
  • Hand

• Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • People
  • Bad
  • Freedom

• That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

  

  Joe Gold
  • Fun
  • Gym

• I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Happy

• Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Needs

• The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Weight
  • Affection

• 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.

  

  Lena Olin