Sean O'Faolain Quotes

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

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• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• Well who's black and what is a black person?

  

  Pam Grier
  • Black
  • Person
  • Well

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Home
  • Book
  • Morning

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Information
  • Leaving
  • Accept

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Future
  • Past
  • Best

• Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Characters
  • Get
  • Noticed

• I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Volunteer
  • Became
  • Dalai

• How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Opportunity
  • Equality
  • Ever

• He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Good
  • Better
  • Down

• There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

  

  Simon Pegg
  • Script
  • Improvisation
  • Marks

• I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

  

  Antonio Sabato, Jr.
  • Music

• I think with drama, at least for me, my process, there's a lot of thought. I do a lot of back story. I listen to a lot of music. I'm very committed to a process when it comes to drama, but with comedy, I think it's really about letting loose.

  

  Jamie-Lynn Sigler
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

  

  Sean O'Faolain
  • Music
  • Alternatives