Edna O'Brien Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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I'm a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I'm not that eccentric in real life - and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people's faces.
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Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.
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Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.
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Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.
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To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.
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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
