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'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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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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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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Left to the mercies of their communities, Muslim women and children remain in abusive households and face losing their financial security over issues like child maintenance and inheritance through the judgments of 'sharia' courts.
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Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.
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It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.
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Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.
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Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.