Chris O'Dowd Quotes
Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend - not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along - had left me.
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Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
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The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.
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Do you need an aggressive streak to thrive? You could say that. A lot of the great players have that mentality.
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What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.
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Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.
