David O. Russell Quotes
Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.
Quotes to Explore
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.
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I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.
