Lena Olin Quotes
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
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Commercial rock ’n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
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It’s tradition. I remove a head, I bring it backstage, I place it on Mr. Fertitta and Mr. White’s desk. 'Here you go boss. Another one done.' And then we discuss big business.
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Inside every anarchist is a failed dictator.
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God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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I believe we can have common sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment, and, in fact, what I have proposed is supported by 90 percent of the American people and more than 75 percent of responsible gun owners.
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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
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Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.
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Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.