Deirdre O'Kane Quotes
Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but I'm glued to my roots, and that comes across.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It’s not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It’s not so much about what you lose; it’s about what you gain.
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When two kids came along, I couldn't see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.
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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
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Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
