Ty Olsson Quotes
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I make good music for long journeys.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.
