Olympia Dukakis Quotes

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

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• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

  

  Ted Turner
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• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

  Otto Penzler
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• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
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• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
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• I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

  

  Edan Lepucki
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• A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
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• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
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• Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

  Zendaya
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• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

  

  A. J. Cook
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• Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
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• We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

  

  Andrew Stanton
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• My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

  

  Ellen Gallagher
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• You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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• 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  

  John Keats
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• I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

  

  Olympia Dukakis
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