Joseph O'Neill Quotes
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
Quotes to Explore
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that.
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I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.
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Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places - not one place, and not one thing, but all of the above.
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When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
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New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
