David O. Russell Quotes

The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.

David O. Russell

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Holy

• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
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• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
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• I am not in politics to make more money.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
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• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  

  Nate Silver
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• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
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• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Way
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• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Respect
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• Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • English
  • Thought

• Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.

  

  Ramez Naam
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  • Energy
  • Food

• I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Me
  • President
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• From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
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• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creepy

• I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Art

• Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.

  

  David Wilcock
  • World
  • Work
  • Respect

• Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

  

  Geert Hofstede
  • Feel
  • Relationships
  • Climate

• Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Passion
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