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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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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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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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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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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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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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
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One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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Yes, a private investigator like my Wilbraham Rice. The public have taken very strongly to Wilbraham Rice. He bites his nails and eats a lot of bananas. I don’t know why I made him bite his nails to start with - it’s really rather disgusting - but there it is. He started by biting his nails, and now he has to do it in every single book. So monotonous.
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Las pequeñeces son lo eterno, y lo demás. todo lo demás, lo breve, lo muy breve
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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!
