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.

Paul O'Grady

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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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• 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.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Young
  • Won
  • Claim

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Look
  • Now

• I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Planning

• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Moment

• Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Own

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Important
  • Think

• I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Life
  • Service
  • My Life

• I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Stand
  • Commentator

• Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Language

• I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Image
  • Super

• 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.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Mind
  • May
  • Day

• In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • People
  • Community

• Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • People
  • Long
  • Grind

• I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • World
  • Work
  • Writing

• Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Ignore

• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

  

  Francis Bacon

• I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Real
  • Guilty

• I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Moving
  • Understand
  • Leaving

• I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!' I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • World
  • Remember
  • Soul

• I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Paul O'Grady
  • Money
  • Job
  • Place