Olympia Dukakis Quotes
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
