Flann O'Brien Quotes
Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
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A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.
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I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.
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For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
