Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
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Women are very powerful! That's why I believe in women's rights and why I fight for it.
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Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.
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One of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there’s no point looking for it.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.
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I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
