Gavin O'Connor Quotes
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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With me, what you see is what you get.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?
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In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.
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Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
