Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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The most interesting thing in the world, from the standpoint of animal economy-which of course includes human economy-is the wonderful laboratory or factory of the plant...
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I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.
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We need to encourage and reward those who play by the rules.
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Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
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The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life.
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Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.
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Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.
Elliott Erwitt -
I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.
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I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.
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There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.
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There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.
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We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.
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After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
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I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
