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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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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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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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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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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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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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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And how am I to face the oddsOf man’s bedevilment and God’s?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.
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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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I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
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I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates wanted to know a little bit more about what I was doing, and they asked me to rap for them. They really liked it, and I made it a goal to come out and try to make something out of the music.
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I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.
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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.
