Mike O'Malley Quotes
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
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They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues.
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The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
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The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.
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This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
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I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
