Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (Dusty Springfield) Quotes

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien

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• But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Person
  • Wrong
  • Go

• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Up
  • Taxes

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Happy
  • Enjoy
  • Be Happy

• God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Character
  • Enjoy

• I'm not going to doubt my life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • My Life

• Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Mother

• Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Down
  • Creating
  • Sustainable

• Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • World
  • Problems
  • Will

• We tried to find the mayor. His secretary said he was at home. His wife said he was at the office. In Italy or France this would mean His Honor was having an affair. In Chabarovice it probably meant he'd run off to be a busboy in Stuttgart.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Honor

• To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Up
  • Night
  • Question

• You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Teacher
  • Petty

• No descubras, que puede no haber nada. Y nada no se vuelve a cubrir.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Couple

• When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

  

  Javier Camara
  • Time
  • Crying

• I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

  

  John Malkovich

• Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Comfort
  • Treat
  • Cure

• Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

  

  Anne Fontaine
  • Experience
  • Films
  • Making

• For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching roles from what we usually play, is pretty awesome. That generally doesn't happen, but TNT is a horse of a different color.

  

  Neal McDonough
  • Good
  • Different
  • Bad

• Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want to say, "No! That's not my America, not the America I know." I'm honored - it's just not me. But as we were saying before, the artist loses control.

  

  Alfredo Jaar
  • Work
  • Used
  • Permission

• I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

  

  Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien