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Olympia Dukakis

"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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"He not busy being born is busy dying."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."

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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."

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Olympia Dukakis
"The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain."

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Olympia Dukakis
"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

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Olympia Dukakis
"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

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Olympia Dukakis
"Winning is everything in Hollywood."

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Olympia Dukakis
"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."

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Olympia Dukakis
"So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today."

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Olympia Dukakis
"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."

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Olympia Dukakis
"Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work."

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Olympia Dukakis
"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."

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Olympia Dukakis
"I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk."

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