Olympia Dukakis Quotes
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
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To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
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I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
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After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.
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Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
