Dolores O'Riordan Quotes

You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch.

Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries

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• I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.

  

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

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• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

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• I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

  

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• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

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• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

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• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

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• I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

  

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• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

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• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

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• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

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• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

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• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

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• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

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• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

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• I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

  

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• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

  

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• I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

  

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• Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

  

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• Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

  

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• You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch.

  

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