J. P. Donleavy Quotes
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.
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It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
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After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.
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I have crushes on women all the time.
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Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.
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All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.
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I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
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I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'
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As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.
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All I wantIs one breakWhich is notMy neck.
