Dolores O'Riordan Quotes
My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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A novel is not a rant.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
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I want to be a major force.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
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As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.
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I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
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Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
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I was raised to feel that I can do anything, and I will always believe that.
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My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.
