David O. Russell Quotes
What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.
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You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
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When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.
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Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.
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Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.
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What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.
