David Russell
David Russell
Director of the films The Fighter, Three Kings, Flirting With Disaster, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle and I Heart Huckabees. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and two nominations for Best Screenplay.
NationalityScottish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 August 1958
CityNew York City, NY
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It would seem to make a lot of sense if the other banks agreed to make the refund and save themselves and their customers the long and tedious hassle of a defended case.
bad
I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
decided prefer rather
My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.
cancel nail pluck
I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.
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My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'
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If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple.
almost certainly
If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.
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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic
journey life next
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination
cross hardest life
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
charged city helping
We don't feel we should be charged for helping the city do its job.
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One of the most disappointing things about the case is that union members had their hopes raised for no good reason. They were given the false impression that William Hill had behaved inappropriately and that there was a pot of money to compensate them,
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To see their level of maturity and the way they handle customers, it is very refreshing.
load taken
It's the same-old story for us. No one has taken the (scoring) load off (Dudley).