Flann O'Brien Quotes
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.
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I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.
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Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
