Jack O'Connell Quotes
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
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To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.
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The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.
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Mummy... I can't do this. I'm not happy, help me!
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In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
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Don't get it twisted. It's not about money, it's not about the fame. It's about I don't have to worry about if my little brother is gonna be able to get a new toy for Christmas. It's those little tiny things that really make up the bigger picture. So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
