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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Gutter

• 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.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Love
  • Characters
  • Films

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• 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.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Over
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• 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.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • History
  • Team
  • Player

• In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • Trump
  • President

• I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Wanted
  • Villain

• We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help.

  

  Marc Morial
  • Work
  • Together
  • Help

• For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • Enemy

• Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Emotional
  • Mother`s
  • Reserved