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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde

When you’re a working actor and you’re happy to be one, you can’t focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
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Actor Crazy Energy Focus Happiness Work Yourself
I don’t own a scale, and Tao banned the word ‘fat’ from our house. If we eat too much, we say, ‘I feel clogged up.’
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Ban Feeling Myself Scale World
I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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Education heavy Inspirational Myself Progression School
This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it’s worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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Business Investment Movie Number Worth
When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it’s sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there’s a backlash. It’s a double standard.
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Kiss Myself People Standard Thinking Woman
In human years I am 29. In actress years I’m the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That’s how it works here in Hollywood.
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Age Hollywood Human Movie Myself Work
I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I’m convinced that it comes from within. If you’re happy and healthy, it shows.
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Cleaning Drink Happiness Health Myself Skin Water
I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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Career Education Myself
If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I’d be a really happy person.
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Happiness Myself Person Play
Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it’s great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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Believe Difference Election Local Start Talk
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you’re too old to play dumb.
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Afraid Dumb Old People Play Role Truth Yourself
I was a handful growing up.
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Growth Hands Myself
It’s so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Evening Important Independence Yourself
I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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Growth Kitchen Myself Need Parents Work
It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There’s no personality involved.
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Depression Modeling Personality Word
If a woman feels anchored to a man’s plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she’s worried she’s missing.
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Feeling Herself Man Missing Relationship Woman Worry
You really just have to love the process. I can’t tell you the amount of film sets I’ve been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.
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Amount Love Process Production Time
I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
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Insecure Myself Relationship Ruin Thinking
I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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Date Enjoyment Myself Night
At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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Change Internet Myself Name Point Privacy
Weakness is something we don’t like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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Compassionate Experience Hold Ourselves People Weakness
Seeing the energy of ‘SNL’ made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.
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Comedy Energy Job Myself Planning Thinking
I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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Feeling Morning Myself Time
I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I’ve been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
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Abandonment Appearance Fill Make Up Myself Nature
You’re going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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Change Growth Myself Old Relationship
I am a big music nerd.
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Music Myself Nerd
A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
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Comfortable Friendship Goodness Hang Present Test Yourself

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