Paul O'Grady Quotes
Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
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It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.
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I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.
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The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
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No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.
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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
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Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
