Michael O'Keefe Quotes
In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel good when you do it.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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I have had experiences with both men and women and I'm proud of it.
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Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
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The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
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In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel good when you do it.
