Edna O'Brien Quotes
My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.
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We will not wait for the winds to stop blowing, we won't wait for the sky to turn blue.
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You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.
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I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
