Brendan O'Carroll Quotes
For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.Brendan O'Carroll
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Babasaheb -
I've never been one to run from a challenge.
Patrick Swayze -
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger -
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
Zooey Deschanel
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
Anton Zaslavski -
I don't know the right way to retire.
Barry Sanders -
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
Uri Geller -
It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
Patrick Whitesell
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
Patricia Richardson -
I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
Madeleine Albright -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
Ira Glass -
My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.
Marla Sokoloff -
Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he's changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.
Shawn Mendes -
I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.
Ahad Ha'am -
I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.
Emily Browning -
For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.
Brendan O'Carroll