Sean O'Casey Quotes
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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I really like to cook.
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I'm really comfortable with myself.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.
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I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
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A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.
