Neil Sheehan (Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan) Quotes
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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I'm a man who doesn't even have a mobile!
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I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.
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I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.
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I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
