Gavin O'Connor Quotes
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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Red wine vinegar has some personality as well acidity.
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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.
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I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
