Gavin O'Connor Quotes
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.
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Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.
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What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
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Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it.
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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
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Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
