Richard O'Brien Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
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I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
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One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
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I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.
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I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.
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'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.
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Cutting down on water use doesn't mean cutting down on outdoor activities or neglecting your lawn. These are simple steps that keep water use low when it matters the most.
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But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
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Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".
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Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
