Olivia Colman Quotes

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

Olivia Colman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 30, 1974

Topics

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Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

John le Carre

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Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

John Wooden

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My only opinion on the L&H 'home movie' situation - I regret we have no financial interest in them.

Stan Laurel

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It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

Sofia Coppola

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I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.

Ron Howard

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I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

Martin Parr

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Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.

Lou Barlow

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There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

Louis C. K.

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I've been doing stand-up since '89.

Judah Friedlander

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You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

Jon Fishman

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I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.

Dimitri Payet

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