Jack O'Brien Quotes
I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.
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Soundgarden signing to a major, then Mother Love Bone, and seeing the same happen to Alice in Chains. We were all suddenly making music and recording at the same time, and we had money to do it. It wasn't like a $2,000 recording that you do over a weekend. It's like, 'Wow, maybe this will be our job.'
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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That was my fault. Basically it was just good defense and I made a bad play.
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I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
