Brendan O'Carroll Quotes

I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.

Brendan O'Carroll

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• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Success
  • Years
  • Building

• When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Character
  • Morning
  • Voice

• I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Great
  • Job
  • Law

• The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Nice
  • Space
  • Chance

• After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

  

  Edward Young

• First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as old as time.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Time
  • Support
  • Silence

• Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics were a century ago.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Ethics

• The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of 'fatalism.'

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Life

• The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Great
  • America
  • Sports

• In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Work

• I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Sweet

• All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Family
  • Tree

• There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • God
  • Mother
  • Stop

• And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • People

• Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • World

• And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Father

• Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Choices
  • Social
  • Degrees

• I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.

  

  Brendan O'Carroll