Orla Brady Quotes
I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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We care about margins.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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Just having the whole control over your body is so important when you're modelling - to just be able to know exactly what you look like and what you're doing.
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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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Why are you always on the verge of goodbye, before I'll show you how I really feel inside.
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I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'
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Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
