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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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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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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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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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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We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.
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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 don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.
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There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.
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You write about what you know.
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Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.
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Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
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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.
