Olivia Wilde Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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The civil service are risk averse.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.
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I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.