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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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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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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The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.
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I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.
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I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.
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Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else.
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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.
