Lena Olin Quotes
It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
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Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
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I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
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Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.
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I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.
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It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.
