David O. Russell Quotes

The romance is essential. I love the love. I don't love just people struggling. I love what people are struggling for. That moves me. I love watching people be loving, and I find it enchanting, magical and transporting. It's one of the reasons that I go to the movies, and that's why I like putting it in movies.

David O. Russell

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• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Experience
  • Issue
  • U.S.

• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Business
  • Feeling

• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Party
  • Choose
  • Election

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Value
  • Quality

• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Never

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Break
  • Disaster

• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Home
  • Free
  • Reading

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Why

• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Show

• When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Father

• There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• When I'm sitting in bed watching 'Chopped' - that Brie I know. But I don't know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she's like.

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • She
  • High

• Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.

  

  Tyler Florence
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Kids

• A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

  

  John Jay Chapman
  • Focus

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• The romance is essential. I love the love. I don't love just people struggling. I love what people are struggling for. That moves me. I love watching people be loving, and I find it enchanting, magical and transporting. It's one of the reasons that I go to the movies, and that's why I like putting it in movies.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Why
  • Moving