Olivia Thirlby Quotes

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

Olivia Thirlby

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LifeMoreActiveAlwaysLittleThan

We have a system of jurisprudence. You are innocent until proven guilty. You have a right to counsel. And you have a right to hospitalization if you are ill. That is our system. And it's what makes this country special and what makes this country great.

Andrew Cuomo

GreatYouGuiltyCountryInnocent

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

John Zorn

I CanTryAlwaysStageUpBeing

Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

IdeasYouNewBecomeLuckyRight

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

Luke Macfarlane

PeopleGayImportantJustLikeMost

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

Jay Roach

SuccessSurpriseBetterAudienceUs

It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.

Delilah

MeListeningTruckSongStartFind

The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

Chiang Kai-shek

EqualityUnityWorldRestRevolution

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe

SportsAnalysisParalysisSyndrome

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Atom Egoyan

ThinkTryingYouKnowWillHigh

You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

YouTopSeeChainCrossFemale

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

Pete Docter

WeirdFirstSameAnimationUpFilm

No business is good when, on the last day of the month, you're like, 'What was the usage for the month?'

Payal Kadakia

GoodBusinessDayYouMonthLast

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