David O. Russell Quotes
Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.
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Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.
