David O. Russell Quotes

The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

David O. Russell

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Great
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Ageless

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Why
  • Black

• I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Wish
  • Loved

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Like
  • Start
  • Maybe

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Company
  • Customers
  • Workers

• My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • History
  • Reading
  • Philosophy

• My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Together

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Think
  • You

• There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Face

• I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Serious
  • Feel
  • Mad

• One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Boyfriend

• Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Create
  • Shoe

• Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Up
  • Devil

• Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Power
  • Together

• The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real