Edna O'Brien Quotes
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.
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I hate going out and being in crowds or being in clubs. I can't deal with it, and I don't like it; I've never liked it.
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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
