Flann O'Brien Quotes
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
Ed Koch -
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring -
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth -
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
Vikram Seth -
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
Patricia Riggen
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
Daniel Cormier -
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
Wendell Berry -
I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
Gail Sheehy -
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Ira Glass -
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali -
Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
Daisy Donovan
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
Kate Moss has great style.
Yigal Azrouël -
A lot happens in 20 years.
Pat Morita -
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
Felicity Huffman -
I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
Val Kilmer -
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
J. August Richards
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Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
Jimmy Iovine -
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Samuel Johnson -
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.
Mark Kirk -
A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
Flann O'Brien