Aoife O'Donovan Quotes
When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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That Shakespeare wanted Art.
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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.
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Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
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I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
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When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.
