Deirdre O'Kane Quotes
It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
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My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
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I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.
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When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
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Grishkin is nice: herRussian eye is underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.
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You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.
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I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.
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I don't want people instructing me what to do with my body; I don't want the government to tell me what I can do in my bedroom, with my body, or with whoever I choose to love.
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.
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It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.
