Edna O'Brien Quotes

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• The American dream is about freedom.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • American
  • Dream
  • Freedom

• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• I think all politicians lie.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Lie
  • Politicians

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Black
  • Me
  • Nice

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Person
  • Stillness

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Best
  • Honor

• I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Earth
  • Computers
  • Studying

• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • She
  • Voice

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Work
  • Petty
  • Awards

• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Think
  • Idiot
  • Computers

• Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Book
  • Career
  • Feel

• Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Care
  • Couple

• I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Reality
  • Stop
  • Magic

• I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.

  

  Bob Iger
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Women
  • Nothing
  • Vote