Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I want to play interesting women.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
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People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.
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I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
