Jack O'Connell Quotes
I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
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I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
