David O. Russell Quotes
There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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We should all love animals.
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I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
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If I hadn't lost it, there never would have been the national effort to get it back in Fremantle, and without that there never would have been the ticker-tape parade up Fifth Avenue in New York, lunch with the president at the White House and all the doors of opportunity that it opened,
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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My dad has been in the fight against monopoly since it wasn't so cool. I'm sure I've turned to the subject to please him, though I think he might consider some of my arguments a little flamethrowing for his tastes.
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There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
