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Olivia Colman Quotes

If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Funny Trust People Me Line

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

Child I Can Become Tell Philanthropy

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

Beautiful Beginning Proud Difficult

The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game.

Change Mistake Game Thinking Late

Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.

Anna Popplewell

Life Child People Transition Know

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Good Society Done Representation

If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.

John Ralston Saul

Live Great Democracy You Late Naive

I invented the cordless extension cord.

Cord Extension Invented

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

People Democracy Free Media You

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Time Road Fast Royal Anything

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

Work Hope Together I Am Proud Will

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

Poetry Speech Goal Us Genetic Our

I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'

Time Book Think Trying Down Serious

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