Jack O'Connell Quotes
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.
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When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.
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My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
