John O'Hara Quotes
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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I really enjoy doing the action stuff, but you have to be careful about who you say yes to with the action stuff 'cause some people want to do it but don't know how, and then it just becomes incredibly frustrating.
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The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum - because of slavery.
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Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties.
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They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
