Paul O'Grady Quotes
You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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The dose makes the poison.
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Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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I think that mind-sets are changing in the Middle East. Poll after poll is showing that men see the value of greater female participation and empowerment. We still have a long way to go, but Islam should not be used as a scapegoat. The obstacles that face women today are more cultural. It's not about the religion.
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A planned life is a dead life.
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But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
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I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
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London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
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I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
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Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.
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You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.
