J. P. Donleavy Quotes
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I'm not cynical.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
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It seems to me that I have become more honest with myself and I learned more about how to communicate with fans. In terms of purpose, I hope we will become a more creative group that will bring good influence to others.
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I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.
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Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, 'So you're not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there's no studios there, baby girl.'
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We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
