Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes
Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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Truly informed sources rarely expect others to accept their conclusions simply because they assert them.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
