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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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 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 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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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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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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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.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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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.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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«Tomorrow I have the pain of the parade.'
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It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.
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In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.
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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.
