Richard O'Brien Quotes
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
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Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense
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Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album you can totally hear they're trying to write a song for 'Grey's Anatomy' and it doesn't work. It's just one of those things that has to feel genuine to last a long time.
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
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My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
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Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.
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'Dead Witch Walking' is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.
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In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.
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My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
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The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
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I can attack a man's weakness and beat him. Or I can attack a man's strengths and break him.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.
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I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.
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There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
