Frances O'Connor Quotes
I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
Quotes to Explore
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
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I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.
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Those who don’t actually witness such a happening can say, “No train will run off the rails, it is unnatural for it to do so”.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
