Lena Olin Quotes
Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.
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I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. ... But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
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It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.
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'Anyway...I find what you write interesting.''That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.'
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Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
