Aoife O'Donovan Quotes
I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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CIU is not something to just tolerate. It's important to find an allergist or dermatologist who can work with you to help manage your condition.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
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In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
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As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.
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You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!
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I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.
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I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'
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Yes, I want kids. I don't know that I'll ever be ready. But, I'll certainly want them. I'll have them regardless of whether I am ready, I think. I just don't have a timeframe on it yet.
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Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!
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If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing.
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Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. Why? Because it makes room for the views of others. It allows us to begin to trust them—and, more important, to hear them. It makes us willing to experiment, and it makes it safe to try something that may fail. It encourages us to work on our awareness, trying to set up our own feedback loop in which paying attention improves our ability to pay attention. It requires us to understand that to advance creatively, we must let go of something. As the composer Philip Glass once said, “The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
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I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'
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I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.
