Sean Durkin Quotes
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I have a couture body.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. … When it was fashionable to say, 'May the Force be with you,' I always said, 'Force yourself.' … I'll say again then, 'The Force is within you. Force yourself.'
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So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
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I went to my first college to play soccer.
