Angel Olsen Quotes

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

Angel Olsen

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• Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Photography
  • Competitive

• We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
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• There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Nothing

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• I think I really benefited from going to college.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • College
  • Going

• A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Gun

• 42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Team
  • Management

• When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Him

• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Business
  • Pride
  • Organization

• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Never
  • Same

• In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Laughter
  • Celebration

• There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Right

• In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Attention
  • Single

• To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • Soul
  • Light

• I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'

  

  Anthony Jeselnik

• I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Different
  • Death
  • Band

• Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.

  

  Ed Walsh
  • Control
  • Times
  • Three

• Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Relationship
  • Film
  • Couple

• Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Children
  • Feel
  • Loved

• Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China.

  

  Adi Godrej
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Stop

• There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

  

  Angel Olsen
  • Expectation