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Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising #conceal #i #illustrate #manufacturers

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#best #family #father #had #interest

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#discipline #i #i love #love #myself

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#always #consciousness #fascinating #get #idea

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#becomes #boyish #carry #impossible #just

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#aware #breathe #dance #deeply #i

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#beginning #experience #had #in the beginning #others

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#i #i quit #meant #quit #said