Patrice O'Neal Quotes
I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
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I feel like the best relationships I've been in are those where things were more laid-back.
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There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
