Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
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I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.
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The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
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The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
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Sting is a father figure to us all.
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I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois.
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You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
