Chris O'Dowd Quotes
I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?
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I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
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Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.
