Flann O'Brien Quotes
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day.
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Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !
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Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
