Leo Ornstein Quotes
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.
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I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.
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Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.
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For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
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You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.
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I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.
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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
