David O. Russell Quotes
Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a positive story. I know people who don't do that, and there's a heavy energy around them. So I guess there's that kind of hustling.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
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I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.
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Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a positive story. I know people who don't do that, and there's a heavy energy around them. So I guess there's that kind of hustling.
