William P. Driscoll Quotes
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
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We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'
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I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
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What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
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Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.
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What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.
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Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
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They are really just special young ladies. They're daughters. They're great daughters. It felt good today. It felt good to see them smile.
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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The unavoidable spread of South Korean capital and information will put the North Korean government in a tight spot, to put it mildly.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.
