Daniel O'Sullivan Quotes
I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters.
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If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.
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The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
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There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something about it if they don't like it. In fact, they don't just rail about it: they go into government, like some of my ex-colleagues.
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We need to do something about the culture of violence.
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In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.
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If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
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There are some real positives for Wales. Their back four's not bad, sometimes.
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I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.
