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’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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What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?
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Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
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I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.
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I like the look of frogs, and their outlook, and especially the way they get together in wet places on warm nights and sing about sex.
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
