Jack O'Connell Quotes
I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.
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I'm not activist, but I'm not troubled by being in the LGBT corner.
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When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
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I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
