Nuala O'Faolain Quotes

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

Nuala O'Faolain

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• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Want

• People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • School
  • Learn

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Opinion
  • Alien

• The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Everyday
  • Cooking

• Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Help

• When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Great
  • Practice
  • Rules

• I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Alone

• 'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Daughter

• I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Fall

• Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Small
  • Technology

• We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Up
  • World
  • Blow

• I'm slow to make a decision. I need to think things over for a long time, to weigh the pros and cons, to look at issues 10, 20, or 30 times. But when that's done, I'm quick to act.

  

  Martin Bouygues
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive - the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• In the cotton States, after the war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Long
  • War

• God preaches, a noted Clergyman -And the sermon is never long,So instead of getting to Heaven, at last-I’m going, all along.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Long
  • Heaven

• I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

  

  Lydia Ko
  • School
  • Why
  • She

• The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

  

  Nuala O'Faolain
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Waiting