David O. Russell Quotes
'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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I'm a cowboy and an Indian.
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
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I dont know that the United States is Gods Country, but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy.
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When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
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I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.
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'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.
