Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.
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I work out sort of moderately.
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The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.
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I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
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I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.
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Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
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Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.
