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" Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. "
Olivia Wilde
Writing
Film
Doing
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" 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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" But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling. "
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Wild
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" If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara. "
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Attention
Some
Mascara
" It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything. "
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Anything
About
" Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up. "
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Parents
School
Bus
" In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters. "
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End
Together
Change
" I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be. "
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Speed
Confidence
Will
" 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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Present
You
Friend
" As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older. "
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Walking
You
Start
" At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet. "
Olivia Wilde
Thought
Privacy
Help
" 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. "
Olivia Wilde
Woman
Fun
Man
" Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought. "
Olivia Wilde
Fall
God
Life
" I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened. "
Olivia Wilde
Justice
Peace
School
" 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. "
Olivia Wilde
Crazy
Energy
Yourself
" I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in. "
Olivia Wilde
Movies
Divorce
Career
" What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit. "
Olivia Wilde
Information
Memory
You
" When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup. "
Olivia Wilde
Blonde
Look
Makeup
" At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic. "
Olivia Wilde
Great
End
Realize
" I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic. "
Olivia Wilde
Almost
Lip
Foundation
" If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter. "
Olivia Wilde
Horse
You
I Am
" Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy! "
Olivia Wilde
Beautiful
Think
Makeup
" I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits. "
Olivia Wilde
Body
Time
Long
" It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow. "
Olivia Wilde
Progress
Daughter
Son
" I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black. "
Olivia Wilde
Eye
Love
Colors
" I was a handful growing up. "
Olivia Wilde
Up
Teen
Growing Up
" From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers. "
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Love
Decisions
Age
" I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair. "
Olivia Wilde
Head
Once
Shaved
" I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression. "
Olivia Wilde
Color
Change
Control
" 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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Think
Girl
Sexy
" It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own. "
Olivia Wilde
You
Independence
Yourself