Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
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Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.
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I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.
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Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
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If I am comfortable with my co-star, then that always shows in my performances.
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Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.
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All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.
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I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
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Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.
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The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.
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Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
