Michael O'Keefe Quotes
Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.
Quotes to Explore
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
Nastassja Kinski -
I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.
