Olivia Thirlby Quotes

But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

Olivia Thirlby

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The enemy is not me. The enemy is Barack Obama.

Robert Pittenger

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When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

John Irving

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People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

Ann Aguirre

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People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.

Amy Hood

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People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

Shirley Manson

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In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.

Simon Mainwaring

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Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

Trent Lott

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Mary McCarthy

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The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

Mike Weir

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I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

Missy Peregrym

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You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.

Jonathan Dee

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I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

Diane von Furstenberg

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