Owen Wilson Quotes
If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be said goodbye to. A movie often turns around and looks at you and says, "Here is who I am, and that's maybe now how you see me, but that's who I've become." And you've got to be open enough to go with that.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.
