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 don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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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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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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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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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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When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.
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Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.
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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?'
