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We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.


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OLIVER SACKS The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to go...
JOHN OLIVER I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down...
JOHN OLIVER In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us...
BARRET OLIVER Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which...
BARRET OLIVER I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not...
BARRET OLIVER It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never ...
BARNEY OLIVER In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic t...
BARNEY OLIVER Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to t...
BARNEY OLIVER No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
BARNEY OLIVER