Deirdre O'Kane Quotes
I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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I love anything to do with history.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.
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'I’m an owl; you’re another. Sir Critic, good day.'And the barber kept on shaving.
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I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
