William J. O'Neil Quotes
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
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I've never met a successful pessimist.
