Denis Kearney Quotes
Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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Women are trying to have it all but are trying to regain control over their time. That's why many women are busting out of the traditional workforce and starting their own businesses.
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I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
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I had examples from a very young age of gay actors or personalities coming out in late '90s and early 2000s who faced a lot of backlash and didn't have a lot of support and risked ruining their careers.
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Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
