Orla Brady Quotes
If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
