Andre Ovredal Quotes
The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.
Quotes to Explore
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I just want to do my job.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
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In order to prove whether the spirit can speak or not, it is necessary in the first place to define what a voice is and how it is generated.
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I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
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I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.
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The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.
