Michael O'Keefe Quotes
Directors, writers, and actors are interested in making movies with me. Producers and movie studio people are not interested in me as they are in Kevin Costner or Tom Cruise. That's just the fact of the matter.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.
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Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
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And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
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The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
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Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.
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It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
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The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.
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It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.
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Directors, writers, and actors are interested in making movies with me. Producers and movie studio people are not interested in me as they are in Kevin Costner or Tom Cruise. That's just the fact of the matter.
