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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First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay. I don't mind reading that - like, 'gay Olympian Adam Rippon.' It's fine. I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians.
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You don't need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're being watched.
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I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
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Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere.
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
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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.
