John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
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Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
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My brother had written 'Ocean Eyes,' and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way - if you can't dance to a song, it's not a song.
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Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
