Walter O'Brien Quotes
I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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As a woman candidate myself, I know how important it was to be encouraged to run, to think outside of the box.
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My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
