Gavin O'Connor Quotes
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I'm very content.
V. S. Naipaul -
I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
J. D. Vance -
When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
Saffron Burrows -
Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
Hailey Gates -
We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
Ian Hacking
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
Patrick McHenry -
I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
Nathan Fielder -
People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
Adam Peaty -
Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
Zach Anner
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
Malin Akerman -
Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
Dalai Lama -
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo -
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
Oliver North -
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
C. J. Cherryh
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
Gary Sherman -
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns -
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
Gary Bettman -
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Yunjin Kim -
The script is just a blueprint.
Gavin O'Connor