Aoife O'Donovan Quotes
It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.
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There will come a day when Anne Heche will be straight again.
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One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
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Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating or expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
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I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.
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It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
