Olga Kurylenko Quotes

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

Olga Kurylenko

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 14, 1979

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I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.

Jodi Kantor

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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

Jim Bakker

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I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.

Johann Lamont

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When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

John Baldessari

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Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

John Hickenlooper

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I don't even have a computer in my office. If I had e-mail, I'd never take the time to read research or absorb information. I want to think about what I'm doing, and that takes time.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

Louis Farrakhan

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There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

Jon Krakauer

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Miscegenation is not an idea that we would have in the Caribbean. It wouldn't come up because anybody could marry anybody, you know. I'm not saying that there aren't prejudices in the Caribbean, but the idea of the word 'miscegenation' is not something that we think of.

Derek Walcott

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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Allen Ginsberg

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