Dolores O'Riordan Quotes
U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
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Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
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When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I got older, I always used to say I want to be paid to think. So for me, to dream, to think, to write - it is wonderful.
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U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.
