Heather O'Neill Quotes
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
Quotes to Explore
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
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The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.
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I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
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It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.
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As parents, you want to try to mitigate your children's pain.
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Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.
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I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
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Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.
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Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.
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Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.
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The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.
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It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.
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I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
