John Carney Quotes
Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.John Carney
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel -
I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
Daniel Bryan -
You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
Sam Heughan
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.
Gamaliel Bailey -
Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
Kate Williams -
The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
Randy Falco -
You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.
Dana Brunetti -
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.
Daisy Donovan -
White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.
Pamela Meyer
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Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Dana Rohrabacher -
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
Barry Ritholtz -
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
K. D. Lang -
Even the most 'Rational' people - the ones who claimed not to have a religion - were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.
Orson Scott Card -
She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.
Garth Brooks -
My form remains one, though the matter in it changes continually. I am, in that respect, like a curve in a waterfall.
C. S. Lewis
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But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
Augusten Burroughs -
Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living.
G.A. Henty -
I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
Candice Bergen -
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Dionne Warwick -
Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
John Carney