Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien Quotes
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I started out doing musicals.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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These initial findings are troubling and the committee ... will continue with its own investigation of the STAR program to get at the truth and inform Congress for the future.
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Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.
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'The Core knows what Teilhard de Chardin and other sentimentalists refused to acknowledge: evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.
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. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
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If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.
