Jim O'Heir Quotes
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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Science grows like a weed every year.
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I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
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To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
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We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrorism, but there is something going on here. We've got a problem dealing with one aspect of one portion of modern Islam - just as hundreds of years ago the world had a problem with Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.
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Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car.
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I've always loved the underdog characters.
