Danny O'Donoghue Quotes
I love to travel, don't like the getting there 'planes' but love it when I arrive.
Quotes to Explore
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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I'm just glad to be able to work.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.
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The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.
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I love to travel, don't like the getting there 'planes' but love it when I arrive.
