Conor Oberst Quotes
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.
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I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the Bushes or the Cheneys, and that wasn't true.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature
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Putin is willing to poison bodies in the free world, not only minds. Why would he do this? Why would he call attention to his murderous ways now? Well, I’ll turn that around and ask instead, why wouldn’t he? Dictators don’t ask 'Why,' they ask 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
