Olivia Thirlby Quotes

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

Olivia Thirlby

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BeautifulI AmSelfPersonWayMore

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

Robert Osborne

GoodMoviesAwardsBecauseOscars

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

Mencius

LifeTogetherFishChooseGoWill

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce

LegsEmergencyCowardWhoThinks

I discovered that I love being on stage in high school.

Sterling K. Brown

LoveSchoolHigh SchoolStageHigh

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Tom Colicchio

ChefKitchenYouCallCookRunning

There are still plenty of fighting forces inside of Syria who want to see Assad go. We should have been helping them from the very beginning.

Tom Cotton

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When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.

Mary Lambert

PeopleHandsYouGayKnowThree

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

Julia Stiles

EarlySomeVeryPrematureBit

Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.

Judi Dench

GoodPeopleColleaguesThinkFriends

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

RelationshipPeaceSoulWarMind

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

SchoolEffortIdentityPeopleWorld

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

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