Carol O'Connell Quotes
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient daysHave led their children through the mirthful maze,And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
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A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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I had a very boring life, which is fine. I like being boring.
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I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.
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In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
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The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.
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Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.
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What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?
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I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
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To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.
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How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
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We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
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All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.
