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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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.
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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
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All we crave for is some love in life. Love is all that we need.
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I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!
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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.
