Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
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Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
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I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
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When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
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The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.
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After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.
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Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,The weary, wayworn wanderer boreTo his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me homeTo the glory that was GreeceAnd the grandeur that was Rome.
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It's even easier to write about the past now that I'm happy and have better stuff to write about. That's why someone like Bob Dylan can make so many records over so long a time; it's not like he's been sad all this time. He's really successful!
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I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.
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The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.
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I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.
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I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.
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We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
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I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
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Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.
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I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
