Bill O'Brien Quotes
Many years ago, plunging was discovered when the moon was in two halves- it's all about dreams, you see.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
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An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.
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In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
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When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.
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I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.
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Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.
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I saw the dead without really seeing them.
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That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.
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India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.
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To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.
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Many years ago, plunging was discovered when the moon was in two halves- it's all about dreams, you see.
