Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
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I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'
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Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
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Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.
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Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
