Liv Ullmann Quotes
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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In London, you can eat your way around the world - Lebanese one night, Indian the next.
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I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.
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Pool swimmers are very slim, and they're stronger. Marathon swimmers have to train an awful lot, and they end up losing a bit of muscle mass. So we need to have a bit more fat, though that's not the case with me. Many swimmers have a little bit of extra fat though, so that they can deal with the cold and get through what is an exhausting event.
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I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.
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Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
