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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Working at the 'Review', if anything, the impression you got was, 'I'll never be good enough. I'll never work hard enough. I'll never be devoted enough.' These people are staying up all night over their sentences!
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, 'You gave hope to other balding men.' My new epitaph: 'Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.'
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We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.
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You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.
