Caragh M. O'Brien Quotes
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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My music lives because of real players.
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What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
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Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."
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There is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you.
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There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.
