Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes
Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love.
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Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
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Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
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Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.
