David O. Russell Quotes
I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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How lucky am I?
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
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President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
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I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.
