Sean O'Faolain Quotes
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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Come back with your shield - or on it.
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.
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I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.
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Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.
