Erin O'Connor Quotes

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

Erin O'Connor

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Pictures

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Character
  • Ambition
  • First

• When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Night

• I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Bread

• We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Time
  • Right
  • Going

• You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Game
  • Player

• I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Reading

• English superiority and American obedience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • American
  • English

• The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science

• Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.

  

  Lucretius

• Ah, but ignorance is better. At least then there's hope.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Hope
  • Ignorance

• I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Road

• The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay.

  

  Danny Danon
  • People

• What matters most to me is doing what I was elected to do: help make life better for Oregonians and making America work for working Americans again.

  

  Jeff Merkley
  • Life
  • Work
  • America

• How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

  

  Christopher Poole
  • World
  • Long

• Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

  

  Erin O'Connor
  • Unknown
  • Beens
  • Protective