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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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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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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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.
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I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write, really, about any of that - rather the institutional structures I've negotiated my way through, with healthy doses of luck, provide a breathing, parasitic glimpse into the bureaucratic monolith of the creative-degree machine.
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I had this notion that maybe I wanted to be an actor... I thought it might be a neat career. I thought if I was going to try that, I should shoot for the best, and I auditioned for Julliard.
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We are all alike, on the inside.
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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
