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 did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I love to tell stories, but the making is less comfortable. I like to be private, and being in the middle of a film crew with the least amount of privacy is the discomfort of shooting a movie. For me, the editing is the great moment when I can bring back ideas and realize the movie for the last time before I hand it to the audience.
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I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.
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Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
