Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin Quotes
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
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I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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The fundamental division of forms of life on Earth is not that between plants and animals, as is commonly assumed, but between prokaryotes-organisms composed of cells with no nucleus, that is, bacteria-and eukaryotes-all other life forms.
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There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.
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I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.
