Deirdre O'Kane Quotes
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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I don't need to impress children.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.
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It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
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Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.
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The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
