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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People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.
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I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can.
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The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
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My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.
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Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
