Brendan O'Carroll Quotes
You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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I like being unconventional.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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I do not want other artists to imitate my work – they do even when I tell them not to – but only imitate my example for freedom and independence from all external, decadent and corrupting influences..
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I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.
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Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
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I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
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Hope—you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it’s not. It’s the opposite. It’s simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with ground fish bones, which you won’t eat because you’re going to give it away, and maybe you’ll get a message through to your friend.
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You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.
