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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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my 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've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
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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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Music is like magic. There's a certain feeling you get when you real and you spit and people are feelin' your shit.'
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Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
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We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.
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If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
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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.
