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 believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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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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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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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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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.
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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.
