Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
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In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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What have I done, she thought, dazed by wine, and what is this gold circle, this glittering zero I’ve stuck my finger in.
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I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.
