Frances O'Connor Quotes
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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We want to play a really physical style ball, and so, for us tackling, we know we are shoulder-based tackling team, and we want to hit that strike zone just like you're throwing fastballs into that catchers' mitt just as hard as you can.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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Roma come before everything else.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
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When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in...
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
