Dan O'Brien Quotes
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
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I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.
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I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.
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Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
