Deirdre O'Kane Quotes
I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
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I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
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To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.
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If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.
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In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
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I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
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'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.
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Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
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I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.
