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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• 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'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

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• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

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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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• 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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• We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

  

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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?'

  

  Lena Olin
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