Lena Olin Quotes
By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
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We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.
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The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
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By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'
