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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I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
