#wi

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#been #could #i #john #john lennon

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#always #between #black #books #communion

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#another #apart #character #give #happen

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#gentlemen #give #her #knows #little

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#because #cheap #comes #everywhere #food

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#i #left #much #noticed #sort

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#building #corner #cut #decide #entire

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#i #just #me #network #never

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#back #basketball #because #coach #cut