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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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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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'
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Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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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.
