Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.Brian O'Driscoll
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong -
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
Dana Stabenow -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
Hank Azaria -
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal -
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
Salman Rushdie
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
Adam Grant -
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Kapil Dev -
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
Barbara Kruger -
You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
Page McConnell -
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
Candice Bergen -
Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
Queen Latifah
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard -
I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.
J. B. Smoove -
Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
Patrick Carman -
You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
Octavia Spencer -
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley -
Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
Laura Bush
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Jodi Rell -
I just want people to remember I'm not perfect. I just try to lead with love every day.
Kylie Bunbury -
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Tecumseh -
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share of jobs in the economy.
Janet Yellen -
I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.
Brian O'Driscoll