Paul O'Grady Quotes

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

Paul O'Grady

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Working

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Army
  • Africa

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• There is inspiration all around us.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Inspiration

• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Music
  • Something
  • More

• We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Generation
  • Evolution
  • Plans

• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Guitar

• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • World
  • Seeing
  • Hearing

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Sin
  • Greatest
  • Boring

• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• Thou art I, I am Thou,Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Art

• Within ten years, we shall have the means to kill 80 million Russians. I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Light

• The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

  

  Anthony Stafford Beer
  • Managers
  • Strategies
  • Facilities

• It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

  

  Leopold von Ranke
  • History
  • Memories
  • Mythology

• You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

  

  Max Roach
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Interesting

• Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

  

  Paul O'Grady
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Solitary