Brendan O'Carroll Quotes
I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.
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To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.
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I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.
