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.Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
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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.
Randy Harrison -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht -
Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
Naftali Bennett -
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel -
We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
Gary Lineker
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Pat Riley -
The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
Kapil Dev -
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.
Malala Yousafzai -
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.
Daniel Bryan -
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy Friday -
Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
Randolph Bourne
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In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. 'Logic' proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
Logic -
Instinct is the direct connection with truth.
Laurette Taylor -
Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.
Jesse Johnson -
Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon -
We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.
Diplo
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For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.
Connie Chung -
The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.
Bill Clinton -
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Oprah Winfrey -
Her one serious failing was that she could not write above love. She could not write a story with more than one important character in it, whom she thought of for the moment as herself; with love there had to be at least two important characters.
Laura Riding -
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
George J. Mitchell -
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.
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien