Lena Olin Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
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We saw that the music industry was changing and we felt that it needed to change. We have wanted to do this for a very long time.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I consume music the way other people consume movies.
