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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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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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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One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
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People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.
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The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
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I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things.
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The materialisation of reforms in the form of rollout of the GST, the institution of Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, and the abolition of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board should boost investor and investment confidence.
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All I wantIs one breakWhich is notMy neck.
